Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys Among Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame recently announced their list of the 2012 inductees, which include: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Guns N’ Roses, Donovan, Laura Nyro, The Small Faces/The Faces, Freddie King, Don Kirshner, Cosimo Mattasa, Tom Dowd, and Glyn Johns.
Congratulations to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys for their induction into the Hall Of Fame. They beat out nominees like The Cure, Eric B. and Rakim, Joan Jett, Donna Summer, Heart, Rufus with Chaka Khan, War, and the Spinners.
See the full list of inductees here.
Frankie D
December 7, 2011 10:00 am
How are the Beastie Boys considered “rock and roll”? I thought they were rappers. (?)
Joe
December 8, 2011 9:37 am
The Boys actually started as a hard garage-style rock band and even left some rock elements in Licensed to Ill in songs like Fight For Your Right and No Sleep Til Brooklyn. Even later songs like Sabotage are essentially rock songs. But the RnRHOF isn’t the strictest when it comes to the genre anyways…they might as well let in the best of other genres since the others don’t have anything. Can you ever imagine a rap or hip-hop hall of fame?
Abbie
December 8, 2011 5:29 pm
doesnt matter, they are EPIC and im just a 13 year old girl I LOVE EM!
RC2011
December 7, 2011 2:49 pm
Who the f**k are The Small Faces??? Wheres Heart!! Wheres The Cure?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
Fuck it RnRHOF nominees 2013:
1) Depeche Mode
2) The Cure
3) Heart
4) The Smiths/Morrisey
5) Iron Maiden
6) The Sonics
7) Black Flag
8) Dead Kennedys
9) War
10) The New York Dolls
11) Adam Ant/Adam & The Ants
Sherrie
December 9, 2011 8:39 pm
The Cure should have won!!