The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2019 inductees have been introduced. Radiohead, the Cure, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Roxy Music, Def Leppard, and the Zombies are the most recent class of inductees. The 34th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is going on on March 29 on the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Radiohead had been nominated last year, however didn’t get inducted. Before their nomination was introduced, the band didn’t appear particularly involved in being inducted. “I don’t care,” Jonny Greenwood said in an interview. “Maybe it’s a cultural thing that I don’t really understand.”
Colin Greenwood, then again, stated he would be glad about an induction. “It might be me just doing bass versions of everything like, ‘Come on, you know this one!’ I’d have to play the bass part to ‘Creep’ five times.”
Brian Eno is among the many Roxy Music members being inducted into the Rock Hall. He joins Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, Eddie Jobson, and Paul Thompson. The Cure members being inducted are Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Porl Thompson, Perry Bamonte, Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup, Boris Williams, Jason Cooper, and Roger O’Donnell.
The nominees who missed out this yr are Rage Against the Machine, Kraftwerk, MC5, Rufus & Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Devo, Todd Rundgren, and John Prine. Last year’s inductees included Nina Simone, the Cars, Bon Jovi, the Moody Blues, and Dire Straits.
Read Pitchfork’s function “The Radiohead Prophesies: How OK Computer Predicted the Future.” See the place the Cure, Janet Jackson, and Roxy Music landed on Pitchfork’s listing of “The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s.”
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