{"id":974438,"date":"2020-01-15T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=937737"},"modified":"2020-01-15T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:00:28","slug":"nine-inch-nails-notorious-b-i-g-whitney-houston-lead-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2020-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/nine-inch-nails-notorious-b-i-g-whitney-houston-lead-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2020-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Inch Nails, Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> has officially announced this year\u2019s inductees: Nine Inch Nails<\/a>, the Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston<\/a>, Depeche Mode<\/a>, the Doobie Brothers<\/a>, and T. Rex will all join the class of 2020. Additionally, Jon Landau and Irving Azoff, two of the most successful managers in rock history, will be presented with the Ahmet Ertegun Award.<\/p>\n

The induction ceremony will be held at Cleveland\u2019s Public Hall on May 2nd and will air live on HBO and the SiriusXM Rock and Roll Hall of Fame radio station. Tickets go on sale on February 27th.<\/p>\n

Pat Benatar, Dave Matthews Band, Judas Priest, Kraftwerk, MC5, Mot\u00f6rhead, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Todd Rundgren, Soundgarden, and Thin Lizzy were all on the ballot this year, but failed to receive enough votes.<\/p>\n

The six acts that did make it in represent a musically diverse class encompassing everything from Nineties industrial, R&B, and hip-hop to Seventies glam and soft rock. \u201cEach of those bands has helped shape the form that rock & roll has taken over the years,\u201d Michael McDonald, who is being inducted for his work in the Doobie Brothers, tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cThat\u2019s what I like to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame do: pick those bands that have sculpted what we see rock & roll as today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston, departed Doobies drummers Michael Hossack and Keith Knudsen, and every T. Rex member besides drummer Bill Legend will be inducted posthumously. If tradition holds, Houston, Biggie, and T. Rex will be honored with tribute performances.<\/p>\n

Nine Inch Nails are entering the Hall after appearing on the ballot three different times. \u201cI\u2019m pretty freaked out,\u201d says Trent Reznor. \u201cI\u2019m quite in shock. When I look back at how Nine Inch Nails are received, it always seems like we fall between the cracks. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a defense mechanism, but I just assumed we\u2019d stay in that category, so I\u2019m pleasantly surprised to see us acknowledged. It feels pretty good \u2026 I\u2019m allowing myself, for a limited period of time, to feel good about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Depeche Mode are equally happy. \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly honoured to be included as one of this year\u2019s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and to stand alongside the other incredible acts in the Rock Hall and those joining this year,\u201d they said in a group statement. \u201cA huge thank you to everyone who has supported us and our music over the years, who have made this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are fewer opportunities for band reunions than at previous ceremonies, but it will be a chance for the Doobie Brothers to reunite with former bassist Tiran Porter, former guitarist Jeff \u201cSkunk\u201d Baxter, and former drummer John Hartman. \u201cI certainly hope that all those guys will show up and be part of the proceeding,\u201d says Doobies singer\/guitarist Patrick Simmons. \u201cThey definitely deserve the recognition.\u201d Last November, the band reunited with former frontman Michael McDonald<\/a> to announce a 2020 North American tour celebrating the band\u2019s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a chance for Depeche Mode to reunite with original keyboardist Vince Clarke and his replacement, Alan Wilder, who left the group in 1995. Wilder returned for a guest appearance in 2010, but Clarke hasn\u2019t played with the group since 1981. (He went on to form Erasure and Yazoo.)<\/p>\n

Many Hall of Fame induction ceremonies end with every performer of the night jamming together, but figuring out a way to do that this year might be a challenge. \u201cWe\u2019ll come up with something, I\u2019m sure!\u201d says Simmons. \u201cWe\u2019ll play the blues!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hall of Fame has a long history of favoring guitar-based bands over ones that utilize synthesizers, but the presence of Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails in this class seems to suggest that things are changing. \u201cRock doesn\u2019t have to be guitar-bass\/drums,\u201d says Reznor. \u201cIt can be a turntable, a computer, a synthesizer, sequencer. They are all tools and a spirit of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced this year\u2019s inductees: Nine Inch Nails, the Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston, Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, and T. Rex will all join the class of 2020. Additionally, Jon Landau and Irving Azoff, two of the most successful managers in rock history, will be presented with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 23:12:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}