NWA, Deep Purple get 2016 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductions as The Smiths miss out

NWA and Deep Purple will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame next year, but The Smiths have missed out this time.

Back in vogue thanks to the recent Straight Outta Compton movie biopic, the groundbreaking rap troupe will be inducted during a New York ceremony next April. As well as Deep Purple, they’re joined by Cheap Trick, Chicago and Steve Miller.

“It’s hard to sum up exactly what it means,” Ice Cube has told Rolling Stone. “It means a lot of things. It means that the group’s mark is kind of solidified. It’s all legitimized in a way because the whole music industry has to honor the group in a way. It’s just hard to sum up in words, really.”

Deep Purple’s induction comes after frontman Ian Gillan was openly critical of the Hall Of Fame during an interview with Classic Rock in October, when he said:

“I have no respect for them. They’re the kind of people that having seen A Hard Day’s Night decided that The Monkees would be America’s equivalent to The Beatles. They’ve no idea what goes on in the big, wide world outside of their self-arbitrating surroundings.”