Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame Inductees to Be Revealed on ‘American Idol’

Nominees for the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame‘s Class of 2024, which had been introduced in February, embrace Mariah Carey, Phish, Outkast, Oasis, Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Pleasure Division/New Order, Soundgarden, the White Stripes, Joe Cocker, Dangerous Firm, Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, and Maná.

To qualify for this 12 months’s poll, every nominee’s first single or album needed to have been launched in 2000 or earlier. Eight of the 14 nominees (Dangerous Firm, The Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Maná, Outkast, and Phish) are on the poll for the primary time. They’ve all been eligible in prior years. (Chubby Checker has been eligible for the longest at 41 years.) That is the third nomination for Soundgarden, and the second for Oasis, Mariah Carey, Cyndi Lauper, White Stripes, and Pleasure Division/New Order.

The annual induction ceremony will happen in Los Angeles within the fall. A date for the ceremony has but to be introduced, but it surely usually takes place in October or November.

The unlikely mixture of American Idol and the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame is certain to thrill Oasis’ Liam Gallagher, who lately declared, “RNR corridor of fame is for WANKERS.” The musician additionally instructed The Sunday Occasions that the Rock Corridor didn’t appear to mirror rock and roll.

“As a lot as I like Mariah Carey and all that, I need to say: do me a favor and fuck off,” he stated. “It’s like placing me within the rap corridor of fame, and I don’t need to be a part of something that mentally disturbed. In addition to, I’ve finished extra for rock n’ roll than half of them clowns on that board, so it’s all a load of bollocks.”