The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just announced their nominee for induction for 2024.
Didn’t we just do this?
Anyway, the obvious choices here are Cher, Peter Frampton, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, and Foreigner.
The rest are nice people but no way. Most of them are modern R&B, and can wait a little longer. There is no one on this list from real rock except Cher. Plenty of R&B classics aren’t in, including Rufus and Carla Thomas, Mary Wells, and Chubby Checker.
Where are Tommy James and the Shondells?
Oasis is a joke. I love Kool & the Gang, but they’re a long shot. Mariah, Mary J, and Sade are not rock and roll.
As for Cher: she told Kelly Clarkson earlier this year, “You know what, I wouldn’t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars … I’m never going to change my mind. They can just go you-know-what themselves.”
But you know, she could be persuaded.
Here are the nominees:
Mary J. Blige
Mariah Carey
Cher
Dave Matthews Band
Eric B. & Rakim
Foreigner
Peter Frampton
Jane’s Addiction
Kool & the Gang
Lenny Kravitz
Oasis
Sinead O’Connor
Ozzy Osbourne
Sade
A Tribe Called Quest
