Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, the Cars, Yes, Steve Miller,Chicago Rock Hall nominees

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Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, the Cars, Yes, Steve Miller and Chicago are among the 15 artists who have been newly nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Approximately five of these acts will actually be chosen as part of next year’s Hall of Fame induction class, which will be announced in December.

The other nine nominees are Los Lobos, Nine Inch Nails, Janet Jackson, N.W.A, the Smiths, Chaka Khan, Chic, the J.B.’s and the Spinners. For the fourth year in a row, fans will be able to cast their votes at Rolling Stone to determine one of the new inductees. (But if we’re reading the rules correctly, the combined fan-vote ballot will only receive as much weight as each of the 800 submitted by the “artists, historians and music industry insiders of the Rock Hall voting body.”)

In order to be eligible for inclusion on this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot, acts had to have released their first single or album in 1990 or earlier. This is the first year that Chicago, Cheap Trick, the Cars, Los Lobos and Steve Miller have been nominated. The Black Crowes are among several newly eligible artists (see gallery below) who were not nominated for possible induction.

The 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place next April in New York City, and will be televised on HBO later in the year.


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Still no Electric Light Orchestra even after all their publicity this past year, Live at Hyde Park in London Festival sold out 55,000 tickets in one day thanks to Jeff Lynne's ELO headlining alone, The GRAMMY performance had Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, The HAIM Sisters, Beyoncé and Keith Urban cheering them on, Jeff Lynne gets his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, New Global Deal with longtime label Columbia Records, then the announcement of ELO's first album since 2001 coming up November 13th, 2015! :mad

That said, I'd vote for...

Chicago
The Spinners
The Cars
Steve Miller Band
Cheap Trick

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PS-Also interesting is that Electric Light Orchestra was the only one not nominated for 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction among Rolling Stone's Reader's Poll Top 5, #2 to be exact, from earlier this year, exactly six months ago, April 2015, why?!
 
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**** the rock & roll hall of shame. Its meanless to be Inducted with the amount of crappy bands that have already been placed in its "hallowed" *cough* *cough* halls.
 

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Not trying to shoot the messenger here, but I couldn't care less about ANY Hall of Fame. I can't understand people who get so upset about nominees and inductees. People who do that, give way too value to opinions of people whose opinions really shouldn't matter.
 

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Couldn't agree more SDM. I'm amazed how this kind of thing has gathered pace. Back in the day bands like The Beatles and The Stones wouldn't have even bothered turning up, and Brian Wilson wouldn't have got out of bed. Jim Morrison might have made an appearance if there was free booze.
 

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