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The 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony will stream live on Disney+ on Friday (Nov. 3). The event will be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Missy Elliott, Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners are among this year’s inductees.
Additional inductees include Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, along with DJ Kool Herc and Link Wray, who will be honored in the category of musical influence. Chaka Khan, Al Kooper, Bernie Taupin will receive awards for musical excellence.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony will feature a star-studded list of presenters and performers including Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Adam Levine, Carrie Underwood, Common, Ice-T, LL Cool J, Miguel, Queen Latifah, Sia, Elton John, Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, H.E.R., St. Vincent and New Edition.
Read on for more details.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: When to Stream
For the first time ever, fans will be able to watch the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony live on Disney+, or stream it on-demand after the premiere. The ceremony will begin streaming at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
Audio from the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony will stream live on Apple Music 1 on Friday. Class of ’23 Rock Hall of Fame, a four-part audio series, is also available to stream on Apple Music and Apple Podcasts.
Additionally, ABC will air a primetime special 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, featuring performance highlights and standout moments from the ceremony, on Jan. 1, 2024. The two-hour primetime special will air at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and will be available the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
If you’re not subscribed to Disney+, streaming packages start at $8/month for the basic package with ads and $14/month for the ad-free package. Disney+ also offers bundle deals and annual plans.
Disney+ subscribers can stream movies and TV shows including Loki, Ahsoka, Goosebumps, Haunted Mansion, Elemental, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Frozen, The Simpsons, Dancing With the Stars and upcoming releases such as Percy Jackson And the Olympians dropping on Dec. 20.
Music lovers will also find documentaries and concert specials on Disney+ such as The Beatles: Get Back, J-Hope in the Box, Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All and Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.
On Nov. 3, 11 musical acts, one hit-generating songwriter and Don Cornelius, the creator-host — from 1971 to 1993 — of groundbreaking syndicated Black music showcase Soul Train, will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
This year’s list of honorees includes a crop of legendary performers: British art-pop legend Kate Bush, hip-hop trailblazer Missy Elliott, late megastar George Michael, pop-rock hitmaker Sheryl Crow, outlaw country icon Willie Nelson, rap-rock firebreathers Rage Against the Machine and smooth soul group The Spinners.
Elsewhere, two individuals are set to be inducted under the “musical influence” category, including “Father of Hip-Hop” DJ Kool Herc and guitar pioneer Link Wray; while the “musical excellence award” will be given to three others: funk idol Chaka Khan, veteran studio musician Al Kooper and longtime Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin.
Notably, four of the seven performers are being inducted on their first nomination: Crow, Elliott, Michael and Nelson. Among those, Elliott was the only artist eligible for the first time in 2023.
While the achievements of many of the above-named inductees — performers like Elliott, Michael, Crow, Nelson, Rage and Khan — are well-known to many, others on the list require more of an introduction. Below, we’ve compiled quick facts on each of the honorees, from the trails they’ve blazed in the industry to the hit songs that shot them to fame and fortune.
Below, a look at their musical milestones and chart achievements.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday (Nov. 3). Viewers can watch the event live on Disney+ starting at 8 p.m. ET.
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Missy Elliott still can’t quite believe that she will be the first female rap artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night (Nov. 3). Speaking to Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts on Thursday morning (Nov. 2), Elliott said she always dreamed of being a “superstar… I never wavered. I never changed. I said it every time,” but after three decades in the music business the 52-year-old Grammy-winning rapper said her latest accolade is unfathomable.
Elliott said “words cannot describe” how honored she is to take the stage tomorrow night alongside fellow 2023 inductees Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners. She told Roberts that as an artist from the hip-hop world, Rock Hall enshrinement seemed “so far out of reach.” Plus, with this being the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, Elliott said the Hall of Fame kudos is further proof that “no matter what people say the hip-hop world is something special and unique.”
Joking that as a kid her family once convinced her that she was related to another one of this year’s inductees, musical excellence honoree R&B legend Chaka Khan, Elliott said being ushered in alongside the likes of Nelson and Crow is indescribable. “To be even at a table with them is a blessing, past a blessing, there’s got to be a bigger word than that,” she said.
After tomorrow night, Elliott will be among just a handful of rappers whose plaques are on display at the RRHOF museum in Cleveland, joining such icons as Jay-Z, LL Cool J, The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, N.W.A, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, Run-DMC and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. And though some critics might quibble at the elastic definition of rock and roll that has found artists who don’t play what is traditionally considered amplified, guitar-based rock music, Elliott said in her mind rock, like hip-hop, is a “gumbo of different styles of music.”
Elliott will be inducted by her friend of 20 years, Queen Latifah, who she praised as someone who, “come before me, open that door, left it open… And I owe so many flowers, bouquets. It’s not enough bouquets for those women that came before me. And she’s one of those women.” In addition, Elliott’s mother will be in the house at the 38th annual induction ceremony on Friday night (Nov. 3) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Believe it or not, Elliott’s mom has never seen her perform live before. “She’s never been to a show because, you know, I had some little words I didn’t ever want her to hear,” Elliott told GMA. “And so she’s comin’ for the first time.”
Tomorrow night’s event will feature presenters and performers Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Adam Levine, Carrie Underwood, Elton John, Brandie Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews, H.E.R., New Edition, St. Vincent, Common, Ice-T, LL Cool J, Miguel, Latifah and Sia. Other inductees this year include DJ Kool Herc and Link Wrap for musical influence, Khan, Al Kooper and Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin for musical excellence and Soul Train host Don Cornelius for the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
The induction ceremony will be broadcast live coast-to-coast on Disney+ on Friday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and will be available to stream following the ceremony. ABC will air a three-hour prime-time special, 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, featuring performance highlights and standout moments on Jan. 1 (8-11 p.m. ET), available the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
Check out Elliott’s interview below.
Stevie Nicks, Adam Levine, Carrie Underwood, Common, Ice-T, LL Cool J, Miguel, Queen Latifah and Sia have been added as presenters and performers for the 38th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, set for Nov. 3 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
In 2019, Nicks became the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice, after having first been inducted with Fleetwood Mac in 1998. In 2021, LL Cool J received the award for musical excellence.
Previously announced presenters and performers are Elton John (who will induct his longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin), Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews, H.E.R., New Edition, and St. Vincent.
This year’s inductees are Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners, along with DJ Kool Herc and Link Wray for musical influence; Chaka Khan, Al Kooper and Taupin for musical excellence; and Don Cornelius for the Ahmet Ertegun Award (formerly known as the non-performers award).
The induction ceremony will be broadcast live coast-to-coast via Disney+ on Friday, Nov. 3 (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) and will be available to stream following the ceremony. ABC will air a three-hour prime-time special, 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, featuring performance highlights and standout moments on Monday, Jan. 1 (8-11 p.m. ET), available the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
This year’s show will be produced and directed by Joel Gallen and Tenth Planet Productions. John Sykes, Joel Peresman and Joel Gallen are the executive producers.
Apple Music will livestream audio from the ceremony on Apple Music 1 on Friday, Nov. 3. A four-part audio series, Class of ‘23: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will also be available on Apple Music and Apple Podcasts leading up to the ceremony. Episodes will be released at 8 a.m. PT on Monday, Oct. 30, through Thursday, Nov. 2. Follow @applemusic on Instagram, X, and TikTok for more content from the ceremony.
Here’s the full list of presenters and performers for the 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony:
Adam LevineBrandi CarlileCarrie UnderwoodChris StapletonCommonDave MatthewsElton JohnH.E.R.Ice-TLL COOL JMiguelNew EditionQueen LatifahSiaStevie NicksSt. Vincent
For the first time ever, viewers will be able to watch a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony live without being there in the flesh. On Thursday (Sept. 28) morning, the Rock Hall announced that the 2023 ceremony will be streaming live on Disney+ at 8 p.m. ET when it takes over Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Nov. 3. In past years, an edited version of each Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony aired on HBO several weeks following the in-person event; now, that edited broadcast of highlights will air on ABC come Jan. 1, 2024, from 8-11 p.m. ET.
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That news also came with the first announcement of who we can expect to take the stage at the Class of 2023 induction. Of the new inductees, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Chaka Khan and Willie Nelson have been revealed as performers at the Nov. 3 event. Additionally, special guests Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, H.E.R., Chris Stapleton, St. Vincent and New Edition will also take the stage.
The Class of 2023 also includes Kate Bush, the late George Michael, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners in the performers category. Additionally, DJ Kool Herc, Link Wray, Al Kooper, Bernie Taupin and Don Cornelius will be inducted.
“This historic live stream on Disney+ and special on ABC is a testament to the diverse sounds and enduring power of rock and roll,” said John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, in a press release. “Over the last three decades, the annual live Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction has become music’s highest honor, celebrating the artists who’ve defined generations and changed music forever.”
This year will mark the first induction ceremony since Rock Hall co-founder Jann Wenner was removed from the foundation’s board of directors by a near-unanimous vote. The Rolling Stone founder was widely lambasted following an interview with The New York Times about his book The Masters, which didn’t include interviews with women or Black artists. When pressed on this by the Times, he replied that women were not “as articulate enough on this intellectual level” about rock music and added that Black artists “just didn’t articulate at that level.” Since then, Wenner apologized in a statement, saying, “In my interview with The New York Times, I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks.”
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Jann Wenner, a co-founder of popular music publication Rolling Stone, found himself the target of criticism after delivering comments some deemed racist and sexist. Wenner has since apologized for the comments, but he was still ousted from the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which he also helped establish, in the wake.
As seen on Deadline, Jann Wenner, 77, was recently profiled by the New York Times in support of his upcoming book, The Masters, focusing on seven iconic musicians who all happen to be white and male. The figures Wenner interviewed are Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Jerry Garcia and Pete Townsend — all of whom are considered legends in music.
In the Times piece, Wenner was questioned on just interviewing white male artists, he went on to say that women weren’t, quote, “as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”
Wenner also used the same talking point when speaking of Black artists.
Wenner also employed the “articulate” argument in his explanation of why he excluded Black artists.
“Of Black artists — 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.”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s board voted just after the Times profile was published and Wenner promptly followed with a prepared statement attempting to clarify his stance.
“In my interview with The New York Times I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists, and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks,” Wenner said.
The statement continues, “The Masters is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ’n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career. They don’t reflect my appreciation and admiration for myriad totemic, world-changing artists whose music and ideas I revere and will celebrate and promote as long as I live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.”
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Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner was given a final chance to explain himself to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation on Saturday (Sept. 16) during an emergency conference call before he was voted off the organization’s board of directors. But instead of quelling outrage at comments he made regarding female and black artists in a New York Times interview that ran Friday Friday, the 77-year-old media icon angered longtime allies on the board with his “bad apology,” sources tell Billboard.
In the New York Times piece, Wenner said women and Black artists didn’t “articulate” on a high enough level in his interviews with them to be included in his new book The Masters — a book consisting of his interviews with the likes of Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Pete Townshend during his time at Rolling Stone. An emergency meeting was called with the board’s high-profile music industry executives dialing in, including Youtube global head of music Lyor Cohen, music manager and executive Irving Azoff and former chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment Doug Morris, as Wenner made a “self-serving” and poorly articulated attempt to explain himself, according to a source.
Underwhelmed by Wenner’s Mea culpa, board members like Rob Light, managing partner and head of the music at Creative Artists Agency, lambasted Wenner’s conduct and eventually a vote was held. Every board member on the call voted to end Wenner’s tenure with one exception — music manager Jon Landau, who cast the single no vote. (Landau was formerly a music critic, who wrote in Rolling Stone’s inaugural issue and for years following.) After a few quick remarks, the meeting was adjourned, and a press release was quickly drafted to announce the decision. Landau and Light did not respond to request for comment.
“Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” read the press release. No more information was given.
Wenner’s controversial statements to The New York Times were made when asked why the book does not feature any interviews with people of color or female musicians. Wenner notes in his introduction that neither are in his “zeitgeist.”
“When I was referring to the zeitgeist, I was referring to Black performers, not to the female performers, OK? Just to get that accurate,” Wenner told the Times’ David Marchese. “The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them. Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”
Speaking on Black artists, Wenner said “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.”
Wenner helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1983 with Atlantic Records founder and chairman Ahmet Ertegun, as well as record executives Seymour Stein, Bob Krasnow and Noreen Woods, and attorneys Allen Grubman and Suzan Evans.
He was was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 2004 and served as chairman from 2006 through 2020. Wenner left Rolling Stone in 2019 when the publication was acquired by Penske Media Corporation, which now also owns Billboard.
Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone and a co-founder and former chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in New York, is no longer serving on the foundation’s Board of Directors, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation confirms to Billboard.
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“Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the foundation says in statement released on Saturday (Sept. 16).
Billboard reached out to John Sykes, current chairman of the foundation, and president and CEO Joel Peresman for further comment.
The move comes directly following an interview published by the New York Times Friday, in which Wenner, 77, addressed criticism of the scope of coverage in his new book The Masters, published through Little, Brown and Company.
In The Masters Wenner looks back at a collection of his interviews conducted in his years at Rolling Stone — all with white men, including Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Townshend.
The book noticeably does not feature any interviews with people of color or female musicians. Wenner notes in his introduction that neither are in his “zeitgeist.”
“When I was referring to the zeitgeist, I was referring to Black performers, not to the female performers, OK? Just to get that accurate,” Wenner told the NYT‘s David Marchese. “The selection was not a deliberate selection. It was kind of intuitive over the years; it just fell together that way. The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them. Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”
Wenner clarified: “It’s not that they’re not creative geniuses. It’s not that they’re inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin. Please, be my guest. You know, Joni was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock … Of Black artists — 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.”
He added that his selection was “intuitive” and noted, “You know, just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism. Which, I get it. I had a chance to do that. Maybe I’m old-fashioned and I don’t give a [expletive] or whatever. I wish in retrospect I could have interviewed Marvin Gaye. Maybe he’d have been the guy. Maybe Otis Redding, had he lived, would have been the guy.”
Wenner, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 2004, was one of the founders of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in 1983. The founding group intended to celebrate rock ‘n’ roll and honor its icons; the foundation began inducting musicians in 1986. Wenner served as chairman from 2006 through 2020, with Sykes filling the role upon Wenner’s retirement.
He left Rolling Stone in 2019 when the publication was acquired by Penske Media Corporation, which is also Billboard‘s parent company.
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This will be the seventh consecutive year that women have been invited to rock and roll’s annual party. (And not just as the +1s of male inductees.)
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Other awards are great, but getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? That’s how you know an artist is a bona fide legend, not just someone with one or two moments in the sun.
Every year since 1986, Rock Hall — a museum and hall of fame that operates out of Cleveland — has elected a new class of music makers and industry leaders into its hallowed halls. Most inductees are enshrined in the “performers” category, which signifies that an artist’s music has somehow impacted the course of rock n’ roll. But deserving innovators can also be welcomed as “early influences” if their work directly inspired the genre’s evolution, or inducted as Ahmet Ertegun Award winners if they’re a non-performing industry professional who had a hand in developing or furthering the art form.
Since 2000, artists, songwriters and producers have also had the chance to be honored by induction under the “musical excellence” category (previously called the “sidemen” category), which goes to those whose originality has had a dramatic impact on music in general. This category has helped in part to diversify the Rock Hall’s roster, something chairman John Sykes thinks is crucial in holistically celebrating the true meaning of rock n’ roll.
“Rock is a part of rock n’ roll, but rock n’ roll was never one sound,” Sykes told Billboard in May 2023. “It was an amalgam of R&B, gospel and country. Really, all roads lead back to 1955 and the creation and explosion of rock n’ roll.”
Almost 400 soloists, bands, players, DJs and executives have been sworn into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Billboard is spotlighting them all. See the name of every inductee, from Chuck Berry to Carly Simon, below (members are listed roughly in the order of their induction).
Note: Once the Class of 2023 has been officially inducted into the Rock Hall, their names will be added to this list.
Chuck Berry
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
James Brown
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Ray Charles
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Sam Cooke
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Fats Domino
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
The Everly Brothers
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Alan Freed
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1986
John Hammond
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1986
Buddy Holly
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Robert Johnson
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1986
Jerry Lee Lewis
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Sam Phillips
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1986
Elvis Presley
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Little Richard
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1986
Jimmie Rodgers
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1986
Jimmy Yancey
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1986
Leonard Chess
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1987
The Coasters
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Eddie Cochran
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Bo Diddley
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Ahmet Ertegun
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1987
Aretha Franklin
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Marvin Gaye
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Bill Haley
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1987
Louis Jordan
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1987
B.B. King
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Clyde McPhatter
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Ricky Nelson
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Roy Orbison
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Carl Perkins
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Smokey Robinson
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Big Joe Turner
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
T-Bone Walker
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1987
Muddy Waters
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
Jerry Wexler
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1987
Hank Williams
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1987
Jackie Wilson
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1987
The Beach Boys
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1988
The Beatles
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1988
The Drifters
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1988
Bob Dylan
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1988
Berry Gordy Jr.
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1988
Woody Guthrie
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1988
Lead Belly
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1988
Les Paul
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1988
The Supremes
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1988
Dion
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1989
The Ink Spots
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1989
Otis Redding
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1989
The Rolling Stones
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1989
Bessie Smith
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1989
The Soul Stirrers
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1989
Phil Spector
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1989
The Temptations
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1989
Stevie Wonder
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1989
Louis Armstrong
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1990
Hank Ballard
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
Charlie Christian
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1990
Bobby Darin
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
The Four Seasons
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
The Four Tops
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1990
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1990
The Kinks
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
The Platters
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
Ma Rainey
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1990
Simon and Garfunkel
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
The Who
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1990
LaVern Baker
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1991
Dave Bartholomew
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1991
Ralph Bass
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1991
The Byrds
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1991
Nesuhi Ertegun
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1991
John Lee Hooker
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1991
Howlin’ Wolf
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1991
Ike and Tina Turner
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1991
The Impressions
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1991
Wilson Pickett
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1991
Jimmy Reed
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1991
Bobby “Blue” Bland
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1992
Booker T. and The MG’s
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1992
Johnny Cash
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1992
Leo Fender
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1992
Bill Graham
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1992
The Isley Brothers
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1992
Elmore James
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1992
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1992
Professor Longhair
Category: Early Influences
Induction Year: 1992
Doc Pomus
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1992
Sam and Dave
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1992
The Yardbirds
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1992
Ruth Brown
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1993
Dick Clark
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1993
Cream
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1993
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1993
The Doors
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1993
Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1993
Milt Gabler
Category: Ahmet Ertegun Award
Induction Year: 1993
Etta James
Category: Performers
Induction Year: 1993
