2009 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees
Congratulations to our Skyline Music client DMC of Run DMC on his nomination! The 2009 Induction nominees are:
- Jeff Beck
Chic
Wanda Jackson
Little Anthony and the Imperials
Metallica
Run-D.M.C.
the Stooges
War
Bobby Womack
Five of these nine nominees will be inducted into the Rock
Hall with inductees announced in January 2009.
Ballots will be sent to more than 500 voters, who will select artists
to be inducted at the Ceremony on April 4 at Public Hall in
Cleveland. For the first time, tickets will be available to the public.
The top 120 as voted by music fans on the rateitall website are:
1 Rush
2 Deep Purple
3 Moody Blues
4 Yes
5 Alice Cooper
6 Chicago
7 Donovan
8 Neil Diamond
9 Jethro Tull
10 Genesis
11 Stevie Ray Vaughan
12 The Hollies
13 Heart
14 Kiss
15 The Zombies
16 The Guess Who
17 Electric Light Orchestra
18 Dire Straits
19 The Cars
20 Doobie Brothers
21 Cheap Trick
22 Steve Miller
23 Pete Townshend
24 Cat Stevens
25 Three Dog Night
26 Grand Funk Railroad
27 Styx
28 Hall & Oates
29 Joe Cocker
30 Wolfman Jack
31 Jim Croce
32 Roxy Music
33 Carole King
34 Duran Duran
35 Peter Gabriel
36 Pat Benatar
37 Joe Walsh
38 Jeff Beck
39 Def Leppard
40 T. Rex
41 The Stooges
42 Ozzy Osbourne
43 Boston
44 Journey
45 The Monkees
46 The Spinners
47 Gordon Lightfoot
48 Steppenwolf
49 Judas Priest
50 Foreigner
51 The Cure
52 Bad Company
53 Warren Zevon
54 Tommy James & the Shondells
55 Todd Rundgren
56 Steve Winwood
57 Badfinger
58 The Replacements
59 ABBA
60 Eurythmics
61 Los Lobos
62 Metallica
63 Emerson, Lake & Palmer
64 Ben E. King
65 The Smiths
66 Squeeze
67 The Jam
68 Billy Idol
69 B-52s
70 Carly Simon
71 Supertramp
72 Thin Lizzy
73 Iron Maiden
74 Blue Öyster Cult
75 Connie Francis
76 Donna Summer
77 The Grass Roots
78 Leon Russell
79 Tom Dowd
80 Scorpions
81 Lou Reed
82 Marianne Faithfull
83 Blood, Sweat & Tears
84 MC5
85 Harry Nilsson
86 Jan & Dean
87 Sting
88 Willie Nelson
89 Lesley Gore
90 The Go-Go’s
91 Stevie Nicks
92 King Crimson
93 XTC
94 Joan Jett
95 Phil Collins
96 Johnny Rivers
97 Melanie
98 10,000 Maniacs
99 Carpenters
100 Little Feat
101 Barry White
102 Linda Ronstadt
103 Joe Jackson
104 War
105 Quincy Jones
106 Bon Jovi
107 Kansas
108 The Commodores
109 Ted Nugent
110 Run-D.M.C.
111 INXS
112 Peter Frampton
113 Sonny & Cher
114 Beastie Boys
115 Bread
116 Ringo Starr
117 Arlo Guthrie
118 Tom Waits
119 Red Hot Chili Peppers
120 Spencer Davis Group
this list can’t be taken seriously — no zeppelin, no beatles, but lesley ‘one-hit’ gore is #89
Rush gets dodged again… what the eff. And effin war? come on. they had like 2 hit songs. Apparently the people picking the candidates just watch Cheech and Chong’s Up In Smoke and said “lets nominate them”
The fact that Neil Diamond has not been inducted long ago is an outright crime. When you got Gene Pitney in their over Neil Diamond there is majorly something wrong. The hall needs to work on putting some credibility back into their choices. It’s simply a joke. I don’t know why I am even wasting my energy writing about it because the people voting are pathetic in a good majority of their choices.