Radiohead, the Cure, Janet Jackson Inducted Into Rock Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2019 inductees have been announced. Radiohead, the Cure, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Roxy Music, Def Leppard, and the Zombies are the latest class of inductees. The 34th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is happening on March 29 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Radiohead were nominated last year, but didn’t get inducted. Before their nomination was announced, the band didn’t seem especially interested in being inducted. “I don’t care,” Jonny Greenwood said in an interview. “Maybe it’s a cultural thing that I don’t really understand.” In a press release with today’s announcement, a representative for Radiohead wrote, “The band thanks the Hall of Fame voting body and extends congratulations to this year’s fellow inductees.”
Colin Greenwood, on the other hand, said he would be grateful for an induction. “It might be me just doing bass versions of everything like, ‘Come on, you know this one!’ I’d have to play the bass part to ‘Creep’ five times.”
Brian Eno is among the Roxy Music members being inducted into the Rock Hall. He joins Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, Eddie Jobson, and Paul Thompson. The Cure members being inducted are Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Porl Thompson, Perry Bamonte, Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup, Boris Williams, Jason Cooper, and Roger O’Donnell.
The nominees who missed out this year are Rage Against the Machine, Kraftwerk, MC5, Rufus & Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Devo, Todd Rundgren, and John Prine. Last year’s inductees included Nina Simone, the Cars, Bon Jovi, the Moody Blues, and Dire Straits.
Read Pitchfork’s feature “The Radiohead Prophesies: How OK Computer Predicted the Future.” See where the Cure, Janet Jackson, and Roxy Music landed on Pitchfork’s list of “The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s.”
