The Nominees For The 2017 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Anounced

On Tuesday (October 18) The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced the nominees for the 2017 induction, now to be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or band must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. The 2017 Nominees had to release their first recording no later than 1991.

2017 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees

Bad Brains 

  

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Chaka Khan 

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Chic 

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Depeche Mode

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Electric Light Orchestra 

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J. Geils Band

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Jane’s Addiction 

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Janet Jackson 

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Joan Baez

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Joe Tex

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Journey

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 Kraftwerk 

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MC5

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Pearl Jam

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Steppenwolf

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The  Cars

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The Zombies 

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Tupac Shakur

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Yes

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For the first time this year, the Hall of Fame will honor specific members of each band as opposed to the full lineup  which has caused a bit of outrage, of the five drummers who’ve played with Pearl Jam, only current drummer Matt Cameron and founding member Dave Krusen are eligible for induction.

The top five, determined by a group of artists, historians, and music industry members, will be announced in December. They will then be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony held in April 2017 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

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On This Day 21st July In Music History

Welcome back to this weeks edition of On This Day, where we delve into the past to find out what happened OTD in music history. This week we kick off in 1961 with the Everly Brothers.

1961

🎙The Everly Brothers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Temptation.’ The American duo’s fourth and last UK No.1.

1966

🎙Georgie Fame was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Getaway.’ the song started life as a TV jingle for a petrol advert.

1967

🎙The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first three nights at the Cafe-a-go-go in New York City. The club featured many well-known acts including: Grateful Dead, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, and Cream who all appeared at the club.

1969

🎙The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song ‘Come Together‘ at Abbey Road studios in London. The track became the opening song on The Beatles Abbey Road album and was later released as a double A-sided single with ‘Something‘, their twenty-first single in the UK and twenty-sixth in the US where it reached the top of the charts

1973

🎙Jim Croce started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.’ Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later.

🎙Canned Heat, Nazareth, Edgar Broughton Band, Groundhogs, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Medicine Head, all appeared at Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England. Hell’s Angels arrived in force and proceeded to drink the site dry. Initially they paid for the booze, but when the money ran out a deputation was sent into the audience to collect donations of 10p per person. About 20 minutes into his set Chuck Berry was showing one of the Angels how to do his duck-walk properly. He did one from one end of the stage to the other and disappeared into the wings. The band played on, the Angels bopped, and Chuck legged it to his car and drove off at high-speed, never to return.

1977

🎙Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops, where they lip-synched to their third single, ‘Pretty Vacant.’ The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7.

1979

🎙Tubeway Army scored their first UK No.1 album with ‘Replicas.’ The band led by lead singer Gary Numan were the first band of the post-punk era to have a synthesizer-based hit, with their first single ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?‘

1987

🎙Guns ‘N’ Roses released their debut album on Geffen Records: Appetite For Destruction featured the singles ‘Welcome to the Jungle‘, ‘Sweet Child o’Mine‘, and ‘Paradise City.’ The album now has worldwide sales in excess of 28 million, 18 million of which are in the US, making it the best-selling debut album of all time there.

1990

🎙Roger Waters’ The Wall took place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. Over 350,000 people attended and the event was broadcast live through the world, Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O’Connor and many others took part.

 

1994

🎙Oasis played their first ever American show as part of the New Music Seminar at Wetlands in New York City.

1995

🎙A judge in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit against Michael Jackson by five of his former security guards. The guards had claimed they were fired for knowing too much about night-time visits by young boys to Jackson’s estate. The singer denied any improprieties.

1996

🎙Alanis Morissette started a second run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Jagged Little Pill which stayed at the top for eight weeks. Overall, the album has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the most successful albums in music history.

2001

🎙Madonna kicked off the North American leg of her 47-date Drowned World Tour at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the singers first world tour in eight years, following The Girlie Show in 1993. Over 730,000 people attended the shows throughout North America and Europe, tour grossed over $75 millions.

2002

🎙Producer Gus Dudgeon, who worked with artists including Elton John, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Kiki Dee, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Strawbs, XTC, and Joan Armatrading, was killed aged 59 in a car accident near Reading, together with his wife Sheila. They had been driving along the M4 motorway on their way home from a party when Gus fell asleep at the wheel of the Jaguar XK8 convertible, crashing down an embankment at speed and ending up in a ditch.

2003

🎙Coldplay singer Chris Martin was charged with malicious damage in Australia after he allegedly attacked a photographer’s car after he had taken pictures of him surfing at Seven Mile Beach. Martin admitted he had lost his temper due to the constant harassment by that journalist, and consequently smashed his windscreen and let the air out of his tyres.

2004

🎙Composer Jerry Goldsmith died after a long battle with cancer aged 75. Goldsmith created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows such as: ‘Star Trek‘, ‘Planet of the Apes‘, ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.‘ and ‘Dr. Kildare.’

2005

🎙UK singer Long John Baldry died of a chest infection. he was one of the founding fathers of British Rock ‘n’ Roll in the 1960s, performing with Blues Incorporated and Cyril Davies’ R&B All Stars. He later fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, with Rod Stewart and then Steam Packet with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Also a member of Bluesology with Elton John. He also narrated on Winnie The Phooh recordings for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the Sonic The Hedgehog computer game.

 

2007

🎙Sharon Osbourne’s music mogul father Don Arden died in a Los Angeles nursing home at the age of 81. Arden was dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business practices, he steered Small Faces, Black Sabbath and ELO to stardom.

2008

🎙Amy Winehouse’s husband was jailed for 27 months for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice. Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, of Camden, North London, admitted assaulting James King, 36, at the Macbeths pub in Hoxton, East London, in June 2006. He also admitted at Snaresbrook Crowns Court trying to make Mr King withdraw his complaint using £200,000 bribe.

🎙The Police played the first of two nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado during the final leg of their 152-date world Reunion Tour. The tour became the third highest grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $340 million.

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That’s it for another week don’t forget to check back next Thursday for the next edition of OTD. Below is this weeks OTD Spotify Playlist, hope you enjoy it and see you next week!

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On This Day 16th June In Music History

Welcome back to this weeks edition On This Day, this week features the usual suspects such as David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, this week also includes a few festivals and some chart features, this week we start in 1962…

On This Day in….

1962

🎙 The Konrads (featuring Dave Jay later to become David Bowie) made their live debut when they played at Bromley Technical School in Kent, England.

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1964

🎙 The Rolling Stones paid £1,500 ($2,500) in return air fares from America back to the UK to honour a booking made a year earlier for £100 ($170) at Magdalen College Oxford. Local group The Falling Leaves were the support act, and the Stones’ bass player, Bill Wyman, had to use on of the Oxford band’s amplifiers because of a malfunction with their equipment. I think their would be very few Bands/Musician who would do that in this day and age.

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1965

🎙 Bob Dylan recorded ‘Like A Rolling Stone‘ at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the sessions for the forthcoming ‘Highway 61 Revisited‘ album. Session musicians included Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, whose Hammond organ on ‘Like A Rolling Stone‘ became one of rock’s most recognizable sounds.

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1966

🎙 John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (featuring guitarist Eric Clapton) appeared at The Marquee Club London, England.

🎙 The Beatles made a surprise live appearance on the UK television program Top Of The Pops, performing ‘Paperback Writer‘ and ‘Rain‘. It became The Beatles‘ last live musical television appearance, with the sole exception of the June 1967 worldwide transmission of ‘All You Need Is Love‘.

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1967

🎙 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Soft Machine both appeared at The Liverpool Love Festival in Liverpool, England.

🎙 The three-day Monterey Pop Festival in California began. All the proceeds went to charity when all the artists agreed to perform for free, the ‘Summer of Love‘ was born. The festival saw the first major US appearances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Also on the bill: The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, The Mamas And The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and The Electric Flag. John Phillips, of The Mamas And The Papas wrote, ‘San Francisco, (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)‘ to promote the festival, which later became a hit for Scott McKenzie.

🎙 Pink Floyd released their second single ‘See Emily Play‘ which was written by original frontman Syd Barrett. The slid guitar work on the song was done by Barrett using a plastic ruler.

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1970

🎙 Mungo Jerry were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘In The Summertime‘. It went on to become the best-selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1 and was a hit in 26 other countries. The UK release was a maxi-single playing at  33 rpm, (whereas singles generally played at 45 rpm).

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1972

🎙 David Bowie released his fifth studio album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars a concept album telling the story of a fictional bisexual alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust. The album reached No.5 in the UK and No.75 in the US.

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1973

🎙 Suzi Quatro had her first UK No.1 single with the Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song ‘Can The Can‘. 10CC were at No.2 with ‘Rubber Bullets‘ and Fleetwood Mac at No.3 with ‘Albatross‘.

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1976

🎙 The Jackson Five four-week summer variety show premiered on CBS – TV featuring The Jacksons plus sisters Latoya, Rebbie and Janet.

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1977

🎙 Kenny Rogers was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Lucille‘. It was the American Country music singer’s first of two UK No.1’s.

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1979

🎙 The Electric Light Orchestra started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Discovery‘ their first No.1 LP, featuring the tracks ‘Shine A Little Love‘, ‘Don’t Bring Me Down‘ and ‘The Diary Of Horace Wimp‘.

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1980

🎙 The Blues Brothers film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago. The film also featured Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles in the role of a streetwise store owner.

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1982

🎙 Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died following sustained cocaine and heroin addiction.

🎙 Donny Vanzant of 38 Special was arrested on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (a dry town) for drinking alcohol in a public place.

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1984

🎙 Frankie Goes To Hollywood had their second UK No.1 single with ‘Two Tribes‘. It stayed at No.1 for nine-weeks making Frankie Goes To Hollywood the first band to have their two singles go to the top of the UK chart. During this run the group’s previous single ‘Relax‘ climbed back up the chart to No.2.

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1988

🎙 Vince Neil of Motley Crue married mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell.

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1989

🎙 The first day of the UK three-day Glastonbury Festival took place featuring Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Throwing Muses, Pixies, All About Eve, Hot House Flowers, The Waterboys, Suzanne Vega and Fairground Attraction. Tickets cost £28 ($48).

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1990

🎙 After a court battle, pop duo Bros paid over £40,000 in settlement of a legal dispute over management.

🎙 Roxette started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘It Must Have Been Love‘. The song, taken from the film ‘Pretty Woman‘. The single became the duo’s third US No.1 and a No.3 hit in the UK.

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1994

🎙 Kristen Pfaff, bass player with Hole was found dead in her bathtub due to a heroin overdose, she was 26 years of age.

🎙 Oasis played at The Erotika Club, Paris in France, the bands first gig outside the UK.

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1996

🎙 Metallica went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their album ‘Load‘.

🎙 Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugees, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, John Lee Hooker, Beck, Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, De La Soul and Richie Havens all appeared at the two-day Tibetan Freedom Concert, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: A sell-out crowd of over 100,000 made it the largest US benefit concert since Live Aid in 1985.

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1999

🎙 Screaming Lord Sutch was found dead after hanging himself. The singer turned politician was 58. He was the first long-haired pop star-boasting hair over 18 inches long and the self-styled lord (real name David Sutch), was Britain’s longest-serving political leader, standing in nearly 40 elections.

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2000

🎙 On the first night of his ‘Up in Smoke‘ tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Dogg’s tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested.

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2001

🎙 Four-year-old Daniel Karven-Veres drowned in Tommy Lee’s swimming pool while attending a birthday party for Lee’s five-year-old son Brandon. His parents, James Veres and Ursula Karven, sued Lee for negligence, claiming they should have been told that a swimming pool was involved, (their son could not swim). Lee was cleared by a jury in April 2003.

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2002

🎙 46 years after his first hit Elvis Presley started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘A Little Less Conversation‘, (Elvis vs. JXL), giving Elvis a total of 18 UK No.1 singles, the most by any artist in chart history. This also set a new record for the longest span of No.1 hits with 44 years, 11 months and 9 days. His first UK No.1 single was ‘All Shook Up‘ in 1957.

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2007

🎙 Rod Stewart married model girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera just outside the resort of Portofino. The 62-year-old singer was previously married to models Alana Hamilton and Rachel Hunter and has seven children in total.

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2008

🎙 Coldplay kicked off their Viva la Vida, 161-date world tour at the Brixton Academy in London, England.

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Well that brings us to the end of this weeks edition of On This Day, be sure to check back the same time next week to find out more interesting facts of the music world also check out this weeks spotify playlist below.

 

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