The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will welcome a new batch of legends this November on HBO. Here’s who inductees like Whitney Houston, Depeche Mode and more will be joining.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions is a two-hour HBO special airing on Saturday, November 7 at 8 p.m., which will see Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G. and T. Rex join an illustrious hall of legends that includes everyone from Abba to ZZ Top. More recently, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been criticised for the lack of diversity in its inductees. Per Billboard, under eight percent of all inductees are women, with artists like Madonna, Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin and Blondie’s Debbie Harry among the relatively few women who have been voted to join the Hall of Fame—a particular insult when men like Paul McCartney, Paul Simon and Rod Stewart have been inducted twice. The inductees have also gotten whiter over time. From a majority black list in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s first year, a third of inductees are now BIPoC, even as the inductees have slowly but surely started to reflect rap music. Though debates can rage endlessly about the inductees missing from the list and the diversity of those who have made it, here is everyone who has made it into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame so far: 1986: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.1987: The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, B.B. King, Clyde McPhatter, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters and Jackie Wilson.
