NWA Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

It would have been nice to see Yes inducted sooner, especially since its co-founder, bassist Chris Squire, died in 2015. “We are extremely excited and we are happy for that”.

Performing from 1986 to 1991, the group was controversial due to their music’s explicit lyrics, which were often thought to be disrespectful of women and vocally oppositional to the police system in the United States (as highlighted in one of the band’s most popular songs, “F-k Tha Police”). Though not a rock act per se, her influence on contemporary music arguably supersedes that of Steve Miller or Deep Purple-and both her brother Michael Jackson and fellow ’80s icon Madonna have been inducted.

The induction ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, NY, on April 8. “I kind of enjoyed having people complain that I wasn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than I think I’ll like being in it. I’m sure now that I’m in it, I’ll be forgotten about and nobody will have anything to complain about”. Deep Purple, best known for their sludgy brand of rock “n” roll and helping to bring in an era of metal, have classics such as “Smoke on the Water”, “Hush” and “Highway Star” in their lineup.

Artists are eligible for inclusion in the Cleveland, Ohio-based attraction 25 years after the release of their first recording.

On Wednesday, one day before the inductees were announce, drummer Paice raised questions about which Deep Purple members would be included.

The classic rockers are now well into their fourth decade of making catchy ballads combined with hard rock – or what frontman Robin Zander describes as “three great guys and four great chords” in an interview with Hits. “I think that the body of work, even just considering the work we did on the first album and beyond, changed the face of pop music for us to be considered influential”. A limited number of pre-sale tickets will be available for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members in advance of the public sale date. That avoids the problem. Chaka Khan and The Cars will also have to wait for a later date, if ever, to reach the hall of fame. Look at some of the non-entities who’ve got in.

“I didn’t know the full story about what they were going through, about how big they were at that point in time”.