The names being considered for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Class Of 2025 have been shared, with Oasis and New Order among those listed.
The details on the artists being considered for the prestigious Rock Hall in 2025 were shared today (February 12), with 14 new names being announced for the longlist.
Among the new names are two massive bands from Manchester, Oasis – who are up for the second time, after receiving their first nod last year – and New Order.
Elsewhere on the list are pop icons Cyndi Lauper and Mariah Carey, as well as US alt-rock duo The White Stripes. As highlighted by BBC News, half of those nominated this year are looking at their first nod from the Rock Hall. This includes punk pioneer Billy Idol, late Sheffield singer and Grammy winner Joe Cocker, and rock veteran Chubby Checker.
Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after their first commercial recording was released, and other names on the longlist for 2025 include Grunge icons Soundgarden, hip-hop heavyweights OutKast, and rock groups Phish, Bad Company and The Black Crowes.
Find a full list below.
The Rock Hall 2025 longlist is:
Bad Company
The Black Crowes
Mariah Carey
Chubby Checker
Joe Cocker
Billy Idol
Joy Division/New Order
Cyndi Lauper
Maná
Oasis
OutKast
Phish
Soundgarden
The White Stripes
Roughly half of those artists will be inducted into the institution later this year, and winners are chosen by an international panel of 1,200 musicians, industry professionals and historians. Fans are also available to vote for their favourites online, and their Top Five choices will be counted as one vote from the “fans ballot”.
Voting for fans is available now, and finalists are set to be announced in April. A date for the induction ceremony will be shared at a later date.
The nod for Oasis comes after frontman Liam Gallagher took aim at the event last year, when the Britpop icons were nominated for the first time.
“Fuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS,” he wrote on X/Twitter, going on to tell a fan who was planning on voting to not “waste your time”, adding that “as much as it’s appreciated it’s all a load of bollox”.
Last year saw Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Kool & The Gang, Peter Frampton, Foreigner and Dave Matthews Band, Mary J Blige and A Tribe Called Quest inducted.
In November, Mariah Carey – who was also on the longlist in 2024 – reflected on her snub when it came to the inductees chosen.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, she said: “My thoughts are, I didn’t get in. 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 got into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame before me.”
Her lawyer, Allen Grubman – a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – was inducted in 2022. Grubman has long been a lawyer to the stars, representing several big names in the entertainment industry including Bruce Springsteen, U2, Sting, Madonna, Elton John and Lady Gaga among others.
In other news about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, last month the chairman of the Rock Hall of said the institution will not be renamed, despite pressure from some artists.
It comes as recent years has seen discussion about whether the Hall should still use the ‘Rock and Roll’ moniker after inducting a number of artists from outside traditional rock music, including Eminem, A Tribe Called Quest, Mary J. Blige, Dolly Parton and Missy Elliott.
“I think it’s because some people don’t understand the meaning of rock and roll,” John Sykes explained. “If you go back to the original sound in the ’50s, it was everything. As Missy Elliott calls it, it was a gumbo. It just became known as rock and roll. So when I hear people say, ‘You should just change it to the Music Hall of Fame,’ rock and roll has pretty much covered all of that territory.”
Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello made similar statements about the Rock Hall name too, saying: “I will say that one thing that people get wrong is that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be just for rock ’n’ roll bands… That’s not what it’s for. Public Enemy is more rock ’n’ roll than 95 per cent of all the hair metal bands that ever picked up an instrument, you know?”
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