Mark Knopfler (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever)
Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, The Moody Blues, The Cars and Nina Simone will be among the 2018 inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
Next year’s ceremony will be held at the Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio on April 14th, but despite their success in America and just becoming eligible, Radiohead won’t be there at the first time of asking after judges followed the public vote in overlooking the band.
It was reported last week that Radiohead had come a lowly 12th in the public vote whose process was explained by organisers:
“Each year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame foundation’s nominating committee selects the group of artists nominated in the performer category. Ballots are then sent to more than 900 historians, members of the music industry and artists—including every living Rock Hall inductee—and the five performers receiving the most votes become that year’s induction class.”
“Beginning in 2012, fans were given the chance to vote for the nominees they’d like to see inducted into the Rock Hall. The top five vote-getters in the public poll form one ballot, which is weighted the same as the rest of the submitted ballots.”