Chubby Checker, Phish and Outkast Among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominated

Outkast, Phish, Chubby Checker, Billy Idol, The Black Crowes and the Mexican band Maná are among the first time nominated for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

This year’s ballot, which was announced by the hall on Wednesday, will also include Oasis, Joe Cocker, Mariah Carey, Cyndi Lauper, The White Stripes, Bad Company and Soundgarden, as well as Joy Division and New Order, The Band That Members of Joy Division formed after his Lead singer’s death, Ian Curtis.

Which in recent years represent the latest nominees a mixture of eras and sub -genre. These include Boldface Rock ‘n’ Roll names from the 1960s, 70s and 80s (Cocker, Idol), Punk and Alternative Heroes (Joy Division, Soundgarden, The White Stripes), Arena Filling Giants (Oasis, Phish), A HIP-HOP ACT (OUTKABLE) and a nod to the world outside the mainstream Anglo-American Pop (Maná).

Given the intense pressure that the rock hall has been exposed to in recent years to correct its bad list of admitting women in the Pantheon, the inclusion of only two female artists – Carey and Lauper, none of them new new In the ballot – bring even more control to the institution despite its promises to reform.

For many years of Rock Hall Watchers the biggest news this year can be checker. His song “The Twist” — a cover of a B-side originally released by Hank Ballard and Midnighers Var a global phenomenon in the early 1960s, and it stands like one of the biggest hits In the story of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles diagram. But so far, Checker, 83, has been ignored by Rock Hall, despite years – decades, even – by complaints from his fans and protests from Checker himself. (Ballard, who died in 2003, was introduced in the hall in 1990.)

In 2001, Checker took a full-page advertisement in the Billboard magazine, which called Rock Hall-together with nominators of the Nobel Prize-to recognize him for the song that, he said, became “the greatest dance of the century.”

“I want my flowers while I’m alive,” he wrote. “I can’t smell them when I’m dead.”

In 2018, the Rockhallen included “The Twist” on a new honor, a list of singles that shaped rock ‘n’ roll.

Artists are eligible for nomination 25 years after the release of their first recording. The nominations are chosen by more than 1,000 music historians, professionals and introduced artists.

The winning nominees will be announced in April, and this year’s induction ceremony will be held in Los Angeles in the fall.