Ever because the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame started inducting artists in 1986, they’ve confronted complaints from followers concerning the choice course of. As you possibly can see from the gallery under, typically the very rock stars the Rock Corridor was created to honor joined in with the criticisms.
Amongst different issues, the group’s executives have been known as “faceless tuxedo-wearing morons” by Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and “spineless weasels” by Kiss’ Paul Stanley.
Usually the critiques are self-serving, if justified, variations on the query, “Why did they get voted in as a substitute of me?” However simply as regularly, the artists are looking for what they take into account overdue recognition for others who’ve influenced or impressed them.
The Rock Corridor’s voters are regularly accused of being biased in favor of white male artists, with females making up lower than 9% of the inducted roster as of 2023. Heavy steel and onerous rock artists have lengthy contended that the group has been too gradual to honor the legends of the genres. Judas Priest wasn’t inducted till 2022, and even then it wasn’t as a part of the performing class, however as a recipient of the Musical Excellence Award.
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There additionally seem like completely different units of guidelines about which particular person musicians from a band get honored. When Kiss was inducted in 2014, solely their 4 authentic members had been named. This excluded, amongst others, Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick, who had been each within the band for greater than a decade and carried out on a number of platinum-selling ’80s albums. Alternatively, when Metallica was honored in 2009, their checklist included bassist Robert Trujillo, who had at that time performed on solely one of many band’s albums.
“There’s lots us artists would change concerning the induction ceremony and who they choose,” Joe Walsh summarized in a 2018 interview. “There’s lots of people I don’t know why they’re in there, and there’s lots of people I don’t know why they’re not.”
25 Rock Stars Who Have Criticized the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame
HOF execs have been labeled “faceless tuxedo-wearing morons” and “spineless weasels.”
Gallery Credit score: Matthew Wilkening
