"38th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to take place Friday, November 3rd at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York



Today, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces its 2023 Inductees in the following categories:



Performer Category



Kate Bush

Sheryl Crow

Missy Elliott

George Michael

Willie Nelson

Rage Against the Machine

The Spinners

Musical Influence Award



DJ Kool Herc

Link Wray

Musical Excellence Award



Chaka Khan

Al Kooper

Bernie Taupin

Ahmet Ertegun Award



Don Cornelius





The announcement was streamed on Apple Music 1 during a one-hour special with hosts Ebro Darden, Rebecca Judd, Matt Wilkinson, Brooke Reese, and Kelleigh Bannen with special guests Sheryl Crow and Bernie Taupin.



“This year’s incredible group of Inductees reflects the diverse artists and sounds that define rock & roll,” said John Sykes, Chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. “We are honored that this November’s Induction Ceremony in New York will coincide with two milestones in music culture; the 90th birthday of Willie Nelson and the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop.”



The Induction categories include:



Performers: artists who have created music whose originality, impact, and influence has changed the course of rock & roll.

Musical Influence Award: artists whose music and performance style have directly influenced, inspired, and evolved rock & roll and music impacting youth culture.

Musical Excellence Award: given to artists, musicians, songwriters and producers whose originality and influence creating music have had a dramatic impact on music.

Ahmet Ertegun Award: non-performing industry professionals who have had a major influence on the creative development and growth of rock & roll and music that has impacted youth culture."

Can't understand why Jethro Tull have never made it. On record sales alone they are more worthy than some who have been inducted.
You could add Free, Joe Cocker, MC5 and King Crimson.

Can't believe Willie Nelson is 90!

Good job they got rid of that racist misogynist Jann Wenner from the board.

Can't wait to see Cheryl Crow up after Rage against the Machine...

"At one point in the conversation, Times Magazine columnist David Marchese asked Wenner, 77, why there were no women or people of color among the “masters” in his pantheon. Wenner replied that his selection of artists over the decades was “kind of intuitive” and not “deliberate” and that he didn’t find women rock artists to be “articulate enough” on an “intellectual level.”

"Given a chance to rephrase, Wenner said, “It’s not that they’re inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin. Please, be my guest.” He also didn’t believe Joni Mitchell to be as much “a philosopher of rock ‘n’ roll” as the white men he interviewed.

His comments on Black artists were less direct, but oddly, almost as reductive: “… You know, Stevie Wonder. Genius, right? I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”

“How do you know,” Marchese asked, “if you didn’t give them a chance?”

Some people just open their mouth and horse shit flows out.

Some people just open their mouth and their true thoughts flow out!