Chubby Checker, Outkast and the White Stripes Will Join the Rock & Hall of Fame

Chubby Checker finally joins the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 65 years after “The Twist” became a number 1 success and an international dance fashion.

Checker, 83, who has campaigned for decades to be admitted to the pantheon, at one point, takes out a full page ad in Billboard magazine that said “I want my flowers while I am alive”, it is part of the 40th annual harvest or interpreter induction. Joe Cocker, The White Stripes, Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Bad Company and Soundgarden, The Rock & Roll Hall of Founde Foundation announced Sunday night, after a segment with rock theme in the “American idol” of ABC.

Those artists, an alignment that combines classic rock, hip-hop, alternative rock of the 1990s and a female pop icon will formally join the hall on November 8 in a ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles that will broadcast live in Disney+.

Checker, Cocker, Outkast and Bad Company were accepted in their first nomination.

The induction of the white stripes, the elegant minimalists of the garage rock whose “army of seven nation” have become a standard that display the stadium, could a drama of clown for this year’s ceremony. Since the band separated in 2011, Meg White, its drummer, has become one of the great pop in the 21st century pop, rarely seen in public and declining all interview requests, which would make any possible appearance of rock blow for rock Hall.

Among the other honors this year, Salt-N-Pepa, the pioneer female rap group and the singer and composer Warren Zevon will receive the influence musical award. The appointment of musical excellence will go to the keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, the bassist of the Carol Kaye studio and producer Thom Bell, a key figure in Soul Philadelphia. Lenny Wararker, producer and executive of Warner Bros. Records, will receive the Ahmet Ertegun award.

Among the nominees who failed to make the final cut this year are Oasis, the bearers of Britpop standards that have gathered for the most demanded world tour of this year, and Phish, the veteran Vermont Jam Band. Phish won the vote of the hall fans: a single vote, entered together with those presented from the vote body of the living room of more than 1,000 music historians, industry professionals and previously induced industry and artists.

Other nominees who did not make the cut include Mariah Carey, The Black Crowes, Billy Idol, the Mexican rock band Maná and the Joy of Joy of Joy of Linked British Groups and New Order.

The Rock Hall has been under close scrutiny about the composition of its induced classes, receiving partularly hard comments on its low number of women; Axis of 2023, women constituted only 8.8 percent of induced people, according to the count of an academic. The room has pledged to address these disparities, just reviewing its definition of rock ‘n’ roll as “an inclusive and always changing spirit.”

After some profits in recent years, with praised inductions of Janet Jackson, Sheryl Crow, the GO-GO and Kate Bush, the last harvest of the members of the interpreters, can attract more complaints. It includes only two women: Lauper, who jumped to fame in the 1980s with successes such as “The girls just want to have fun” and “Time After Time” and Meg White of the White stripes.

The artists become eligible for nomination to the living room 25 years after the launch of their first recording.