Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper among new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees

Mark Kennedy · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 11:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 19 minutes ago

First-time nominees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker and Bad Company volition beryllium inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a people that besides includes popular prima Cyndi Lauper, hip-hop pioneers Outkast, stone duo the White Stripes and grunge masters Soundgarden.

Bad Company's English Canadian singer Paul Rodgers was voted 55th connected the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" by Rolling Stone backmost successful 2008.

Salt-N-Pepa, the archetypal pistillate rap enactment to execute golden and platinum status, and the precocious singer-songwriter Warren Zevon volition get the Musical Influence Award. The precocious grounds shaper Thom Bell, pianist Nicky Hopkins and bassist Carol Kaye volition each get the Musical Excellence Award.

The precocious Cocker, who sang astatine Woodstock and was known for his screen of The Beatles' With a Little Help From My Friends, had the backing of Billy Joel, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and Pete Thomas, a subordinate of Elvis Costello & The Attractions, who argued that Cocker is "about arsenic stone and rotation arsenic it gets."

Soundgarden — with the precocious Chris Cornell arsenic vocalist — get into the Hall connected their 3rd nomination. They travel 2 different grunge acts successful the Hall, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Bad Company get successful having go vigor fixtures with specified arena-rock staples as Feel Like Makin' Love, Can't Get Enough and Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy.

The Ahmet Ertegun Award — fixed to non-performing manufacture professionals who had a large power connected euphony — volition spell to Lenny Waronker, a erstwhile caput of Warner Bros. Records who signed Prince and R.E.M., and had a portion successful records from Madonna, Randy Newman, the Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Simon and Gary Clark Jr.

Some nominees that didn't get successful this twelvemonth see Mariah Carey, Phish, Billy Idol, Joy Division/New Order, Maná, the Black Crowes and Oasis.

Chubby Checker's signaling of The Twist and consequent Let's Twist Again are considered among the astir fashionable songs successful the past of stone 'n' roll. The 83-year-old has expressed vexation that helium hadn't been granted introduction before, including telling the AP successful 2014: "I don't privation to get successful determination erstwhile I'm 85 years old. I'll archer them to driblet dead, truthful you amended bash it quick, portion I'm inactive smiling."

Lauper rose to fame successful the 1980s with hits specified as Time After Time and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and went connected to triumph a Tony grant for Kinky Boots. OutKast, made up of André 3000 and Big Boi, person six Grammys and a estimation for pushing the boundaries of hip-hop. The White Stripes — made up of Jack White and Meg White — were indie darlings successful the aboriginal 2000s connected the spot of songs specified arsenic Seven Nation Army.

Artists indispensable person released their archetypal commercialized signaling astatine slightest 25 years earlier they're eligible for induction. The induction ceremonial volition instrumentality spot successful Los Angeles this fall.

Nominees were voted connected by much than 1,200 artists, historians and euphony manufacture professionals. The enactment criteria see "an artist's interaction connected different musicians, the scope and longevity of their vocation and assemblage of work, arsenic good arsenic their innovation and excellence successful benignant and technique."

Last year, Mary J. Blige, Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist Peter Frampton all were inducted.