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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025: First-Time Nominees Like Outkast, Phish, Billy Idol and Chubby Checker Face Returning Candidates Oasis and Mariah Carey
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees include such first-time contenders as Outkast, Phish, Billy Idol, Bad Company, Joe Cocker and more.
The forthcoming stadium tour could work in the band’s favor this time around… or, conversely, voters could hold it against Oasis that Liam Gallagher’s response to being nominated a year ago was to say “fuck the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame” and call it “a load of bollox.” One of the biggest shocks in this year’s crop — and certainly a pleasant one for many — would have to be the inclusion of the Mexican band Maná, marking the first time an artist recording primarily or entirely in Spanish has been nominated. His champions had long argued that Checker’s absence from even getting on the ballot was one of the hall’s more glaring historical oversights, while naturally there were others who felt that he was too much of a two-hit wonder to earn a place among the other seminal rockers who’d gotten in.
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