Sam Cooke deserves it, killed by a hooker after a cocaine bing, thats rock n roll

oh yeah, rock and roll alright

doing this all day and dyin' like that

Eminem and Duran Duran Lead Rock Hall Race After One Million Votes

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https://ultimateclassicrock.com/eminem- ... ll-voting/

Eminem leads this year's nominee pool at more than 142,000 votes, followed by

Duran Duran (more than 119,000),

Pat Benatar (more than 112,000), (the only one close to be a rocker)

Dolly Parton (more than 95,000) and

Eurythmics (more than 73,000).

Four other artists have received more than 50,000 votes:

Lionel Richie (more than 67,000)

Judas Priest (more than 65,000)

Carly Simon (more than 60,000) and

Rage Against the Machine (more than 50,000) following close behind.

The rest of the pool...
Devo (more than 41,000)

A Tribe Called Quest (more than 40,000)

Dionne Warwick (just less than 40,000)

Kate Bush (more than 37,000)

New York Dolls (more than 25,000)

Beck (more than 23,000)

MC5 (more than 20,000)

and Fela Kuti (more than 15,000)

I have thought for years that the selection process was a load of horseshit. The current crop of nominations has done nothing to change that! Rock and Roll my ass.

This is not an Onion headline:

Dolly Parton to Make ‘Great Rock Album’ if She Enters "Rock 'n' Roll" Hall of Fame

Read More: Dolly Parton to Make Rock Album if She Enters Hall of Fame | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/dolly-p ... ock-album/

Apparently Dolly Parton was as surprised as the rest of us upon hearing the news that she had been nominated for induction into the "Rock 'n' Roll" Hall of Fame:

"I was absolutely floored when I heard that," Parton told Billboard in a new interview. "I’ve never thought of myself as being rock ’n’ roll in any sense of the word – but I guess they judge it on the music and the influence certain songs have had, and I guess I’ve had songs with other people in that realm. But I don’t know how they judge that." She continued: "I’m not expecting that I’ll get in. But if I do, I’ll immediately, next year, have to put out a great rock ’n’ roll album – which I’ve wanted to do for years, like a Linda Ronstadt or Heart kind of thing. So this may have been just a God-wink for me to go ahead and do that. It’s just nice to be nominated."

Dolly (which is her real name by the way) circa 1975

Duran Duran lead the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame fan vote for the class of 2022 by a wide margin with less than a week left for fans to cast their ballots.

The new wave heartthrobs have amassed more than 900,000 fan votes at the time of this writing, leading the pack by roughly 230,000 votes.

2) Eminem lands at a distant second place with roughly 672,000 votes, followed by

3) Pat Benatar (604,000),

4) Eurythmics (424,000) and

5) Dolly Parton (382,000).



https://ultimateclassicrock.com/duran-d ... -fan-vote/

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:52 pm The term "Rock n Roll" does not mean the style of music, it is a loose description.

Correct. The phrase “rock and roll” was first used to describe “race music” for a multi-cultural audience by DJ Alan Freed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1951. There weren’t many hard rock groups back then, LOL.

I vote for Eurythmics.
First band vinyl i bought, great voice, avant garde music, and great black music influence.

I vote for Eurythmics.
First band vinyl i bought at 13, great voice, avant garde music, and great black music influence.