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2007 Rock Hall of Fame Nominees Announced

Nine artists have been nominated for entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007: Patti Smith, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Stooges, R.E.M., Chic, Van Halen, Joe Tex, The Ronettes, and the Dave Clark Five. These bands\artists qualify for induction by having released their first record at least twenty-five years ago. The nominees will now be voted on by a panel of 500 experts, with the top five enshrined next year at the annual ceremony. The induction will be held on March 12, 2007, in New York.

Patti Smith, R.E.M., and Van Halen are almost shoo-ins, while the Stooges and Grandmaster Flash have a very good chance to be inducted as well. The Stooges was the early home of Iggy Pop that have been hugely influential on recent garage rock bands such as The Strokes, The Vines, and Jet. Grandmaster Flash is one of the most influential early hip hop artsists, most famous for his song "The Message." That leaves Chic, Joe Tex, the Ronettes, and the Dave Clark Five on the outside looking in.


Chic is a disco-funk band from the late seventies that had hits with "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)," "Le Freak," "Everybody Dance," and "Good Times," to name a few, between 1976 and 1979. "Good Times" has been sampled by hip hop artists again and again, most famously by the Sugarhill Gang for "Rapper's Delight" and fellow nominee Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel."


Joe Tex was a soul singer in the sixties and seventies that pioneered a spoken performance style that he called "rap," making him an early predecessor of the rap music genre.


The Ronettes were a girl group best known for their breakout single "Be My Baby" which peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Pop Chart in 1963. It was their biggest hit in addition to being their first. Their biggest contribution to rock music, however, was their work with legendary producer Phil Spector and his "wall of sound" production techniques. Veronica Bennet, who was the band's lead singer, was known as Ronnie Spector after she married the producer in 1968.


The Dave Clark Five (DC5) were one of the few British bands of the 1960s that ever gave the Beatles any competition. They were the second "British Invasion" band, behind the Beatles, to have a hit in America ("Glad all Over," 1964). They had several more hits, notably "I Like it Like That" and "Over and Over" which hit #1 on the US Billboard Pop Chart in October of 1965, before they disbanded in 1970.

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