2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, in alphabetical order, starting with Bad Company. UPDATE: Awards for 6 others

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(Cross-post from Music Appreciation)

UPDATE: 6 more artists were added under categories fans weren't allowed to vote on. See reply 6.


Bad Company
Chubby Checker
Joe Cocker
Cyndi Lauper
Outkast
Soundgarden
The White Stripes


Bad Company was my favorite here. Free, Paul Rodgers' band before Bad Company, should also have been in the HoF long ago.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/04/27/rock-hall-of-fame-inductees-2025/83253417007/

The boys club that comprises this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class also contains a female solo musician who has always been a striking presence: Cyndi Lauper.

She's among the seven new inductees, whittled from a list of 14 announced earlier this year, who spotlight a more conventional rock lineup – excepting Atlanta hip-hop innovators Outkast – than the genre diverse classes of recent years.

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Those who didn’t make the cut this year include The Black Crowes, Billy Idol, Maná and Phish – all first-time nominees – along with Mariah Carey and Oasis (both nominated in 2024 for the first time) and Joy Division/New Order (nominated once before in 2023).

Veteran jam band Phish won the fan vote with almost 330,000 – about 50,000 more than the next highest, Bad Company – but contrary to popular belief, winning the fan vote does not guarantee induction.

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The induction ceremony will be November 8 and will air live on Disney+ and be on Hulu the next day, with a condensed version on ABC later.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Chubby Fucking Checker?

Yet more evidence of how ludicrous the HOF has become.

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2. You's think he was already in there long ago.

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3. Surprised Joe Cocker wasn't already in the R&R HoF.

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8. Sadly, he died in 2014--Crawford, Colorado (where he lived for years--unbeknownst to me until recently)

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4. BAD COMPANY

About freaking time.

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5. Worst HOF Snubs

1. Thin Lizzy
2. The B52's
3. The Pixies
4. INXS
5. The Commodores
6. King Crimson.
7. DEVO
8. Warren Zevon
9. The Grand Funk RR
10. Jethro Tull
11. Blue Oyster Cult
12.The Scorpions
13.Beck
14. Garbage
15.Styxx

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7. Zevon was given a special award. See reply 6.

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9. Wow. And the Commodores aren't in there? Is Lionel Richie as a single performer?

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6. Update - 6 more artists were given special awards

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/rock-roll-hall-fame-inductees-cyndi-lauper-white-stripes-1236379605/

Two more recording artists won induction into the hall despite not appearing on this year’s ballot, by a move of the board in a separate Musical Influence category: Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon.

Three other musicians are getting in via the Musical Excellence Award, as also selected by the board: producer Thom Bell; pianist Nicky Hopkins, a frequent Rolling Stones sideman back in the day; and bassist Carole Kaye, a famous member of the session players’ ensemble the Wrecking Crew.

The lucky 13th inductee for this year is Lenny Waronker, whose stewardship at Warner Bros. Records over a period of decades landed him a reputation as an artist-friendly exec with some of the best ears in the business.