Performer Category:
• Bon Jovi
• The Cars
• Dire Straits
• The Moody Blues
• Nina Simone
Award for Early Influence:
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Artists nominated for 2018 but not selected:
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Very good (and somewhat surprising) news today that Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Folk icon Janis Ian posted a meme earlier this year declaring that "before Elvis, before Chuck Berry, a queer Black woman invented rock n roll" (I'm paraphrasing here). This intriguing statement led me and perhaps many others to check out Sister Rosetta. I had heard of her, but never really listened to her music before. However, this video, from a 1964 UK performance, made me a believer, forever...
There is an excellent 2007 book about Sister Rosetta you can buy on Amazon here...
Sister rocked the guitar like no other.
Nina Simone is a wonderful, complicated artist. I guess this fits more into the "rock & roll attitude" category, since little of her music could be called rock & roll. But since so many non-rock artists are already in the Hall (Madonna, NWA), the cat is officially out of the bag and if we're nominating people on the basis of rock & roll attitude, Nina got that in spades.
Shame the MC5, Zombies, and Link Wray didn't get in, but glad that Rage and Radiohead didn't (too soon).
Artists nominated for 2018 but not selected:
Kate Bush
Depeche Mode
Eurythmics
The J. Geils Band
LL Cool J
MC5
The Meters
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
Link Wray
The Zombies
Depeche Mode
Eurythmics
The J. Geils Band
LL Cool J
MC5
The Meters
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
Link Wray
The Zombies
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Very good (and somewhat surprising) news today that Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Folk icon Janis Ian posted a meme earlier this year declaring that "before Elvis, before Chuck Berry, a queer Black woman invented rock n roll" (I'm paraphrasing here). This intriguing statement led me and perhaps many others to check out Sister Rosetta. I had heard of her, but never really listened to her music before. However, this video, from a 1964 UK performance, made me a believer, forever...
There is an excellent 2007 book about Sister Rosetta you can buy on Amazon here...
Sister rocked the guitar like no other.
Nina Simone is a wonderful, complicated artist. I guess this fits more into the "rock & roll attitude" category, since little of her music could be called rock & roll. But since so many non-rock artists are already in the Hall (Madonna, NWA), the cat is officially out of the bag and if we're nominating people on the basis of rock & roll attitude, Nina got that in spades.
Shame the MC5, Zombies, and Link Wray didn't get in, but glad that Rage and Radiohead didn't (too soon).
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