The announcement was made yesterday. From today's RAMP newsletter...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yesterday unveiled its 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees -- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Green Day, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Lou Reed, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble and Bill Withers will join the Class of 2015 in the performers category, while 1950s R&B group the "5" Royales will receive the Early Influence award and Ringo Starr will be honored with the Award For Musical Excellence, becoming the last member of The Beatles to be inducted into the Rock Hall as a solo artist, following John Lennon in 1994, Paul McCartney in 1999 and George Harrison in 2004. The Beatles were inducted as a group in 1988.
I've got no problem with any of the people that made it, but I do have some problems with those that still haven't. I was on a show recently with Dick Biondi and he told me he asked to be taken out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until they inducted the band Chicago. That does seem to be a needless oversight.
