And
the nominees are:
The
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Donna
Summer
N.W.A.
Heart
Joan
Jett and the Blackhearts
Kraftwerk
Public
Enemy
The
Meters
Deep
Purple
Chic
Albert
King
Procol
Harum
Randy
Newman
The
Marvelettes
Rush
A
nice selection. Usually I assume only five will be inducted. Of this crop I only had to look
up the Marvelettes, who helped Motown get started (best known by “Please, Mr.
Postman”).
My
personal picks would be Joan Jett, Donna Summer and Heart, all of which I’ve advocated
for in the past, joined by Public Enemy (no contest) and Kraftwerk – one of the
first bands I ever wanted added when I first started watching this process.
N.W.A.,
Albert King, Deep Purple, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and The Meters are my
second-place picks.
This
could be a good year. Of my initial list, from 2009, I wanted Whitney Houston,
Gram Parsons, Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, and the Stooges. They’ve got the Stooges,
now they’ve got a chance to get Kraftwerk. Still waiting on those as well as the previous mentions of Jethro Tull, Joan Baez, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, Dionne Warwick,
Janet Jackson…
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