Janet Jackson, Radiohead, Def Leppard and Stevie Nicks will join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next year at its 34th annual induction ceremony, along with the Cure, Roxy Music and the Zombies, the organization announced on Thursday.
According to the NYTimes, the class of 2019, which will formally enter the pantheon on March 29 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, represents a varied cross-section of the last half-century of pop music, with giants of classic and alternative rock, as well as a couple of acts from zones that the hall still glances at only occasionally: dance music and crowd-pleasing 1980s pop-metal.
Your official #RockHall2019 Inductees are here - welcome to the Hall of Fame: https://t.co/9aY5FO8gBH pic.twitter.com/YVep5m9r3f— Rock Hall (@rockhall) December 13, 2018
The seven inductees — the biggest class since 2004 — are mostly uncontroversial choices, which may help the hall duck the criticism it has often received because of its opaque internal politics. Three acts — Def Leppard, Roxy Music and Nicks — were accepted the first time they appeared on the ballot, while Radiohead and the Cure made it in the second time around.
Those that did not make the cut this year include Devo, Todd Rundgren and John Prine, each nominated for the first time; Rage Against the Machine, on its second nod; the 1970s funk band Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan, rejected a third time; and LL Cool J, Kraftwerk and the Detroit rock band MC5, each on its fifth nomination.
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