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Last Updated on 07:55 PM by Nikos Nakos
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame announced the nominations for this year’s names for possible induction into it. Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is some kind of glamour meets redneck institution that honestly we cannot understand what does exactly has do to do with Rock And Roll…. Among the names featured is DEEP PURPLE, NINE INCH NAILS, CHEAP TRICK, YES and of THE CARS, Steve Miller, CHICAGO, LOS LOBOS, Janet Jackson, NWA, THE SMITHS, Chaka Khan, CHIC, THE JB ‘S and THE SPINNERS. To be able to be a candidate a band or artist should have released its first single or album before 1990. Last year’s Hall Of Fame class included GREEN DAY, Lou Reed, PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND, JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, Stevie Ray Vaughan and DOUBLE TROUBLE and Ringo Starr. We believe that something is wrong with this whole thing / institution or what the hell is all this and Ian Gillan seems to put things in the right place.
Speaking to Chile’s Radio Futuro, Gillan said: “Whatever I say about that is gonna sound wrong. But who the hell wants to be in an institution? The Hall Of Fame thing, it’s an American thing. We don’t have that in England or Germany or Australia or Russia or anywhere in the world apart from America. And it’s an institution. What’s that got to do with rock and roll? Also, it’s run by these old guys who thought that THE MONKEES were America’s answer to THE BEATLES. And they called DEEP PURPLE [laughs]… I don’t think they quite understand what we are… They called us one-hit wonders. So I don’t know what they were talking about… whether it was ‘Hush’ or ‘Black Night’ or ‘Strange Kind Of Woman’, ‘Smoke On The Water’, ‘Child In Time’, ‘Knocking At Your Back Door’ or one of those one-hit wonders that we were… ‘Highway Star’… I just don’t know. And I guess the fans don’t really understand it except in America. It’s no big deal.”
DEEP PURPLE was denied entry to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013 losing out to such artists as American pop singer-songwriter Randy Newman and R&B singer Donna Summer.
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich told RollingStone.com that he hoped DEEP PURPLE will eventually get recognized by the Hall. “I’m not gonna get into the politics or all that stuff, but I got two words to say: ‘DEEP PURPLE,'” he said. “That’s all I have to say: DEEP PURPLE. Seriously, people, ‘DEEP PURPLE,’ two simple words in the English language. But definitely, NIRVANA is a no-brainer for the first year and I’m glad that KISS is getting the long-overdue recognition that they deserved for everything that they pioneered, and then I got two words, ‘DEEP PURPLE!’ Did I say that already?”
At their own induction in 2009, METALLICA’s James Hetfield included PURPLE on a list of acts they wanted to see in the Hall including also THIN LIZZY, TED NUGENT, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, MOTÖRHEAD…
