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Rage Against The Machine have reflected on their ‘surprising trajectory’.
Rage Against The Machine, Kate Bush and George Michael are among this year’s inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
These artists are a part of the 2023 class along with Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, The Spinners and Willie Nelson, and are announced ahead of a ceremony at Barclays Center in New York later this year.
“In 1991 four people in Los Angeles formed a musical group to stand where sound and solidarity intersect,” a statement from Rage begins.
A band who is as well known for our albums as we are for our fierce opposition to the US war machine, white supremacy and exploitation. A band whose songs drove alternative radio to new heights while right wing media companies tried to purge every song we ever wrote from the airwaves. A band who shut down the NY Stock Exchange for the first time in its history.
“A band who was targeted by police organizations who attempted to ban us from sold out arenas for raising our voices to free Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier and other political prisoners.”