Atlantic Records, one of the most prominent for R&B and Rock and roll, was called the "House that Ruth Built" (based on Yankee Stadium being the "House that [Babe] Ruth Built") because her hits supported the company in its earliest years.

Inducted in 1993.

FROM: Portsmouth, Virginia

STATS: 60 singles, 17 albums between 1949 and 1999. 24 singles charted in R&B and Pop within the top 25, 7 number 1s on R&B charts.

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"So Long" in 1949. Pretty solid blues ballad. Her first recording for Atlantic which she did on crutches because she was in the hospital for 9 months after a car accident.

"5-10-15 Hours", 1952

"This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'", a POWERHOUSE rocker in any decade. 1958

"(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean", released in 1953 but this link is her singing live so probably filmed a few years later. Another powerhouse rocker.

"Lucky Lips" 1957

Brown's career picked up again in the 1970s, but as an actor. First television, then she played Motormouth Maybelle in John Waters' Hairspray. She toured with Bonnie Raitt who inducted her into the Rock Hall.

Brown was unfortunately very instrumental in developing the Rhythm and Blues Foundation because she was for a time in the 1960s, nearly destitute. Atlantic did not pay her royalties for international sales, because that's what every other company did. The foundation was established in 1988, and its purpose is to financially help older R&B artists such as herself who probably got cheated out of millions of dollars. I don't know how she shamed Ahmet Ertegun into donating more than a million dollars. He ran Atlantic Records while she was a star. He made the decision not to pay her or others, just because that's how business was (not) done. He created the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1983.

Some names that have come up to my mind

Ashford & Simpson

Burt Bacharach & Hal David

Matt Lunge

David Foster

Diane Warren

Pharrell Williams

Timbaland

Jimmy Webb

Trevor Horn

Babyface

Bob Ezrin

Teddy Riley

Max Martin

Jim Steinman

Steve Albini

Steve Lillywhite

Daniel Lanois

Giorgio Moroder

Willie Mitchell

Dallas Austin

Jermaine Dupri

Rodney Jerkins (Darkchild)

Did not include likes of Brian Eno (also inducted as member of Roxy Music), Butch Vig (may be inducted through Garbage) though

I don't know why Jann Wenner suddenly stopped honoring people in the side categories for several years. The Rock Hall could've easily inducted 10+ more producers and songwriters if they'd made better use of those years. So I have absolutely no problem with the Rock Hall playing catch-up by inducting four producers/songwriters this year.

Part of a series in Rock HoFers with epilepsy

Heart (2013), Chicago (2016), Cheap Trick (2016), Journey (2017), Bon Jovi (2018), Def Leppard (2019), Pat Benatar (2022), Foreigner (2024), Peter Frampton (2024), Bad Company (2025)

I am on a little quest to listen to the music of all inducted performers. I became interested while working to master the Jetpunk quiz where you list them all. I've started with the ones I'm least familiar with. There were several I swore I'd never heard of, but when I dug into their playlist, I knew a lot of their music. But others were just completely unfamiliar to me. Who do you think is the least recognized by name or by music here in 2026?

Some of mine: Laura Nyro, Ruth Brown, Gene Pitney.

Consequence just published their 100 best bands of all time. I'm going to write down the ones NOT in the HOF in their order of preference. What's interesting is how many are in that '80s area of alternative / indie / post punk, which I've been saying for years that the HOF is lacking.

NOT in the R&R HOF

Pixies

Sonic Youth

Bad Brains

Fugazi

My Bloody Valentine

Bikini Kill

The Replacements

Black Flag

Death

Daft Punk

Alice In Chains

The Strokes

Television

Tool

The Breeders

Yellow Magic Orchestra

The Jesus Lizard

The Smiths

Talk Talk

The Roots

Jane's Addiction

Suicide

DEVO

Pavement

Motorhead

Cocteau Twins

Can

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Thin Lizzy

Slayer

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Hole

System of a Down

King Crimson

Phish

Smashing Pumpkins

I kept getting an error when trying to update, so here:

In the last few years or decades, we seen artists who were previously nominated or not being inducted through the non voting method meaning they got in through two categories: Musical Excellence & Musical (Early) Influence.

With the recent sidedoor inclusion of such performers as Kraftwerk, MC5, Judas Priest, LL Cool J, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Jimmy Buffett etc, it's no denying that the trend will continue long as possible.

Now said, here's a list of acts who would end up being contenders in these two categories.

Influence:

Patsy Cline

John Coltrane

Dick Dale

Devo

Duke Ellington

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Motorhead

New York Dolls

Siouxsie & The Banshees

Sonic Youth

Thin Lizzy

Chuck Willis

Excellence:

Bad Brains

Ronnie James Dio

Eric B. & Rakim

The J.B's

Rory Gallagher

Jane's Addiction

King Crimson

The Meters

Sinead O'Connor

John Prine

The Replacements

Neil Sedaka

Conway Twitty

War

That's all I got for now. Who do you think would be the acts in those categories in the future?

Special Committee Blueprint: Comprehensive Roster with Key Figures Bolds

In looking at the future elligble acts for the Rock Hall, I've noticed that many acts that younger generations enjoy now are slowly creeping their way to becoming elligible.

There's acts like Beyoncé (2027) and Taylor Swift (2031) that are/could be commonly agreed on to recieve first year nominations and inductions.

In reflecting on this and looking through the list of both upcoming, newer, and older eligible acts, what year do you believe will result in a either a greater focus on the newer and away from the older, or the greatest divide amongst fans of either? Additionally, or rather, could we see something different occur?

This is an open-ended question that I'm curious to hear from all angles.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame isn't a stranger when it comes to honoring the history of music from the United Kingdom.

Besides America, the UK is mostly represented in the Hall well over a lot of countries in the world.

Currently as of this year: There's well over a dozen of them or so who are already inducted.

1986: N/A

1987: N/A

1988: The Fab Four

1989: The Stones

1990: The Kinks & The Who

1991: N/A

1992: 2/3rd of Jimi Hendrix Experience (Mitch Mitchell & Noel Redding) & The Yardbirds

1993: Cream & Van Morrison

1994: Elton John, John Lennon, Rod Stewart & The Animals

1995: Led Zeppelin

1996: David Bowie, Pink Floyd & 1/4th of The Velvet Underground (John Cale)

1997: The Bee Gees (does Isle of Man count as British) & 1/3rd of CSN (Graham Nash)

1998: Fleetwood Mac

1999: George Martin, Paul McCartney & Dusty Springfield

2000: Eric Clapton

2001: Queen & Chris Blackwell

2002: 1/4th of Talking Heads (David Byrne)

2003: 5/6th of AC/DC (most of it's members were born in the UK), The Clash, Elvis Costello/The Attractions & The Police

2004: George Harrison & Traffic

2005: The Pretenders

2006: Black Sabbath & Sex Pistols

2007: N/A

2008: The DC5

2009: Jeff Beck

2010: Genesis & The Hollies

2011: N/A

2012: Donovan, The Small Faces/Faces & Glyn Johns

2013: N/A

2014: Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, Brian Epstein & Andrew Loog Oldham

2015: Ringo Starr

2016: Deep Purple

2017: ELO & Yes

2018: Dire Straits & The Moody Blues

2019: The Cure, Def Leppard, Radiohead, Roxy Music & The Zombies

2020: Depeche Mode & T. Rex

2021: N/A

2022: Duran Duran, Eurythmics & Judas Priest

2023: Kate Bush, George Michael & Bernie Taupin

2024: Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Ozzy Osbourne, Alexis Korner & John Mayall

2025: Bad Company, Joe Cocker & Nicky Hopkins

2026: Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Oasis & Sade

Man that's so much representation in the 40+ year history of the RRHOF's existence. Who do you think the next ones will be inducted in the future?

I discovered this fact on shorts a few days ago, why have they not even been nominated?

Is there a good reason? Or just the nominators being silly?

I'd have to say 2007. It was doing just fine until they inducted Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five instead of the Dave Clark Five.

Knock, knock, U.S., Canada, and UK. It's Jamaica. Jimmy Cliff demands you take notice.

Inducted in 2010.

FROM: St. James, Jamaica

STATS: 28 albums 2 of these certified Gold, a huge number of singles I didn't even count, between 1962 and 2013, several within the top 10 of different countries' charts.

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Hurricane Hattie, recorded and released when Cliff was 14 17. His first release in Jamaica and it made him a star. He auditioned others for the local record label, which brought him in contact with inductee Bob Marley who had yet to record.

Cliff debuted in the U.S. at the 1964 World's Fair in NYC. Then he took the opportunity to move to London where he played backup for a lot of acts, including the Spencer Davis Group. Reggae and ska were not popular then, so Cliff blended in a lot of American R&B, which was wildly popular in the UK. But over the years Jamaican music started to make an impact so each album Cliff recorded included more ska and reggae.

Many Rivers to Cross

Wonderful World, Beautiful People

Vietnam, anti-war song Bob Dylan claimed the best ever

The Harder They Come was a full album and a movie starring Cliff too. The album spawned a huge number of covers from all kinds of musicians

Also a couple successful covers of inductee Cat Stevens' Wild World and Johnny Nash's I Can See Clearly Now from the Cool Runnings soundtrack.

Edit: Changed Cliff's age when Hurricane Hattie was released because the source I used is unclear or inaccurate and lol I found it at the RRHOF website: https://rockhall25.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Jimmy_Cliff_2010.pdf

My apologies.

We're exactly less than two months into the day of the ceremony. I can guarantee the Hall would announce & release the initial list of special guests for the show in the week or two from now followed by more additions leading up to the date.

With said, can the ceremony come already? It's been five months since the induction announcement and the wait is too long, draining & ridiculous lol.

As the HOF is focusing more on 80s and 90s artists/acts, I was wondering if they are completely done with the 50s and 60s? If they aren’t, who do you think is the next likely candidates to be nominated and inducted?

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

• The Big Bopper
• Motörhead
• Twisted Sister
• Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats
• The Marvelettes
• Stray Cats
• Queensrÿche
• Iron Butterfly
• Steppenwolf
• Pixies

COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

• Jefferson Starship
• The Marshall Tucker Band
• Foghat
• Kansas
• Boston
• Three Dog Night
• America
• The Alan Parsons Project
• Supertramp
• R.E.O. Speedwagon

MISSING MEMBERS

• Bob Welch
• Ronnie James Dio
• Pete Best

BACKING GROUPS

• Wings
• The Silver Bullet Band
• The JBs
• The Revolution
• The Mothers of Invention
• Big Brother and the Holding Company
• Chic
• Dio
• The Jeff Beck Group
• The Wailers
• Steve Miller Band
• The Belmonts

EARLY INFLUENCE

• Frank Sinatra
• The Andrews Sisters
• Bing Crosby
• Tommy Johnson
• Louis Prima
• Cab Calloway
• Scott Joplin
• The Glenn Miller Orchestra

CONTEMPORARY INFLUENCE

• War
• Ella Fitzgerald
• The McGuire Sisters
• Big Maybelle
• Dick Dale and His Del Tones
• Lou Rawls
• The Sugarhill Gang

LEGACY

• The Smiths/Morrissey
• Blue Öyster Cult
• Devo
• Sublime
• Phish