ROCK N ROLL Hall of Fame 2011 Class Revealed

Subject: ROCK N ROLL Hall of Fame 2011 Class Revealed Thu 16 Dec 2010, 1:44 am

By Andy Greene

The votes are in and next year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class will include Neil Diamond, Alice
Cooper, Tom Waits, Darlene Love and Dr. John. Leon Russell will be
receive The Award For Musical Excellence (formerly the sideman category)
and industry legends Jac Holzman and Art Rupe will both receive the
Ahmet Ertegun Award. The ceremony will be held March 14 at New York's
Waldorf Astoria Hotel and it will be broadcast live on Fuse.

Artists are eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years
after the release of their first single or LP. All of this year's
inductees, however, started in the 1960s — with the lone exception of
Tom Waits, who released his first LP Closing Time in 1973.

Dr. John, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Was 'Surprised' By the News

Love feels that the long wait was well worth it. "I was on my way to
Atlantic City in a limo when I got the call," she says. "I started
screaming and I thought, 'I sure hope the driver doesn't think that my
husband's trying to kill me.' I was laughing and crying at the same
time."

Darlene Love, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Says She's on Cloud Nine

The ceremony falls right in the middle of Neil Diamond's Australian tour in
March. Nothing is set yet, but Diamond hopes to re-shuffle some dates
so he can make it. "I'll get in somehow," he says. "They are working on
the details right now. I 'm very hopeful it'll work out because I don't
want to miss this ... Any club that has Chuck Berry and Little Richard
and The Everly Brothers is a club that I want to be a part of."

Neil Diamond, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Says He Feels 'Very Lucky'

When Alice Cooper got the news he immediately called his former bandmates in
the original Alice Cooper band. "I said 'Well, remember when we started
in high school?" he says. "Here we are. It only took 45 years."

Alice Cooper, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Was 'Elated' When He Got the News

Cooper plans on performing with the band, something he's only done a handful
of times since they broke up in 1976. "We're trying to figure out if we
do 'School's Out,' do we send balloons of confetti into the audience?"
he says. "I doubt there'll be a snake there though...If you look at the
list of past inductees it's all of my heroes, from Pete Townshend to The
Yardbirds to The Beatles to The Stones. It's everybody that we listened
to in order to become Alice Cooper, so it's pretty amazing that those
are the same people that actually voted for us."

So anyone care about these people?

Don't really know them. Congats are in order.

just like the last two, congrats to them.

Neil Diamond and Alice Cooper deserve to be there. I have no idea who the others are.

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