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3. Cher: “Just Like Jesse James”
Here’s one other legend who had by no means been nominated earlier than this 12 months, as a solo artist or as part of Sonny & Cher. The massive query now could be whether or not Cher — who’s justifiably salty about how lengthy it took for her to be acknowledged — will present as much as the ceremony. As she mentioned on Kelly Clarkson’s present just some months in the past, “I wouldn’t be in it now in the event that they gave me one million {dollars}. I’m by no means going to vary my thoughts. They can simply go you-know-what themselves.” Rock star angle if I’ve ever heard it!
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4. Foreigner: “Cold as Ice”
The producer Mark Ronson, who’s the stepson of Foreigner’s Mick Jones, led an unofficial marketing campaign to get the rockers on this 12 months’s poll, asking a few of his well-known acquaintances — together with Paul McCartney — to submit on social media expressing shock that the band was not but within the Rock Hall. It appears prefer it paid off.
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5. Mary J. Blige: “Real Love”
Two years after her commanding efficiency in the course of the Super Bowl halftime present, Mary J. Blige will obtain one other high-profile honor when she’s inducted into the Rock Hall this 12 months. This hit from her 1992 debut album “What’s the 411?” nonetheless sounds as contemporary because the day it was launched.
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6. Peter Frampton: “Show Me the Way (Live)”
When Sheryl Crow was inducted final 12 months, she chosen Peter Frampton as one of many artists she received to jam with — maybe to attract consideration to the truth that, after almost three many years of eligibility, he nonetheless wasn’t within the Rock Hall. In a Rolling Stone interview after information broke that he was on this 12 months’s class, Frampton mentioned, “Sheryl was the primary individual I known as once I discovered.”
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7. Dave Matthews Band: “Crash Into Me (Live at Continental Airlines Arena)”
In 2020, the Dave Matthews Band received the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s fan vote, nevertheless it didn’t assist it get in. The group received it once more this 12 months, and this time it will likely be inducted, too.
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8. Ozzy Osbourne: “Crazy Train”
And lastly, although he was inducted as a member of Black Sabbath in 2006, Ozzy Osbourne was mainly a shoo-in for this 12 months’s Rock Hall class, given each his iconic standing and his current well being troubles. As Osbourne, whose parting with Black Sabbath was infamously acrimonious, informed Billboard after the information broke, “Not dangerous for a man who was fired from his final band.”
