Rock Hall of Fame: Mariah Carey, Phish, Oasis, Outkast, Billy Idol, Joy Division Lead Nominees
The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024 are in – and the list includes Mariah Carey, Phish, Outkast, Oasis, Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Joy Division/New Order, Soundgarden, the White Stripes, Joe Cocker, Bad Company, Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, and Maná.
The inductees will be announced in late April along with the names of the acts receiving the Musical Influence Award, the Musical Excellence Award, and the Ahmet Ertegun Non-Performer Award. The annual ceremony will take place in Los Angeles in the fall.
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“These remarkable nominees have each created their own musical style and attitude impacting generations of music lovers and contributing to the ever-evolving sounds and continued growth of rock & roll,” said John Sykes, Chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
To qualify for this year’s ballot, each nominee’s first single or album had to have been released in 2000 or earlier. Eight of the 14 nominees (Bad Company, The Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Maná, Outkast, and Phish) are on the ballot for the first time. They’ve all been eligible in prior years. (Chubby Checker has been eligible for the longest at 41 years.)
This is the third nomination for Soundgarden, and the second for Oasis, Mariah Carey, Cyndi Lauper, White Stripes, and Joy Division/New Order.
Joy Division and New Order are technically two distinct bands. But New Order was formed by surviving Joy Division members Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, and Stephen Morris after the death of frontman Ian Curtis in 1980. The only additional member of the lineup was keyboardist Gillian Gilbert. The two acts have more shared DNA than the Faces and the Small Faces, who were inducted as a single act in 2012.
New Order haven’t performed with Hook since 2005. Relations between the two camps are strained following a legal spat, but the Hall of Fame is perhaps the one place they’d come back to perform a few songs in honor of their past.
“It will be a difficult awards ceremony if we get there, but as my wife said we’ve got to rise above these things… and be nice and be courteous and think the best,” Hook told Billboard in 2023. “Maybe this is the olive branch that we may need to end the injustices that were done with New Order in the end. It’s a very strange position to be in but, y’know, we’re not the first group that’s been ostracized by each other, and we won’t be the last.”
The ceremony could also bring Outkast back together for the first time since the conclusion of their 2014 farewell tour. In his recent Rolling Stone Interview, however, Andre 3000 didn’t seem too interested in reforming the group. “I knew when I was, like, 25, that at a certain age I wouldn’t want to be onstage doing those songs,” he said. “They required a certain energy. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of looking back. I’m just not. I’m grateful for everything that’s happened, but it was a time. To me, that’s what it is. That was a great time, and I wish y’all were there.”
They haven’t announced a date for the ceremony this year, but it typically takes place in October or November. Oasis will be playing reunion shows in Asia, Australia, and South America at that time, and it’s possible they won’t be able to come presuming they are inducted and have any interest in the first place. “Fuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS,” Liam Gallagher posted on X last year. “You know it I don’t need some wank award by some geriatric in a cowboy hat.”
Mariah Carey was on the ballot last year, and was disappointed that she didn’t get in. “My thoughts are, I didn’t get in,” she told the L.A. Times last year. “Everybody was calling me, going, ‘I think you’re getting in!’ and so I was excited about it. But then it didn’t happen. My lawyer [Allen Grubman] got into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame before me.”
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