New Jersey rock group Bon Jovi and its fans can stop living on a prayer: the band is headed into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, along with the Cars, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues, Nina Simone and pioneering gospel singer-guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
The LATimes reports the Cleveland-based institution unveiled its newest roster of inductees on Wednesday morning, adding another handful of honorees to more than 300 previous inductees.
The Rock Hall’s voting membership, consisting of more than 900 music critics, record executives, managers and other industry insiders, closely matched the results of the hall’s fan voting, which began after this year’s nominees were announced in October. Fan voting adds just a single vote to the overall totals for the top five vote-getters but nevertheless lets the voting body know in no uncertain terms who the public most wants to see enshrined within its walls.
Bon Jovi topped the fan balloting with 1.16 million votes, followed by the Moody Blues (947,000 votes), Dire Straits (613,000), the Cars (552,000) and the only fan favorite that didn’t make the final cut, heavy metal band Judas Priest, which collected 538,000 fan votes.
Other nominees who will have to wait to see if another year will bring them into the rock hall are rapper LL Cool J, Eurythmics, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Kate Bush, J. Geils Band, Detroit proto-punk group MC5, the Meters, Link Wray, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Depeche Mode and the Zombies.
Welcome to the Hall of Fame, official #RockHall2018 Inductees. Class + @KlipschAudio Induction Ceremony details: https://t.co/0Hk6KLhq27 pic.twitter.com/UYTKvQ9SJZ— Rock Hall (@rockhall) December 13, 2017
The induction of veteran English art-rock band the Moody Blues will quell a raft of fans who have consistently, and loudly, made their voices heard each year when the group was overlooked previously.
Although the Moodys became eligible in 1989 under the hall's requirement that 25 years elapse after an act’s first recording, the group perhaps best known for its 1967 ambitious and heavily orchestrated concept album “Days of Future Passed,” and the single it yielded, “Nights in White Satin,” appeared on the nominees list for the first time this year.
The induction dinner and ceremony will be held in April in Cleveland. Among the planned events is a new Hall of Fame experience that is part of the organization’s multi-year, multimillion dollar upgrade, according to a hall spokesman.
The induction ceremony will be filmed and edited for a highlights special that HBO will premiere several weeks later.
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