The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced this year’s inductees: Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and the Spinners will be inducted in the Musicians category Class of 2023 added.
Chaka Khan, Al Kooper and Bernie Taupin receive the Musical Excellence Award, DJ Kool Herc and Link Wray receive the Musical Influence Award, and Don Cornelius receives the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
The induction ceremony will be held on November 3rd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Details of the TV broadcast will be announced at a later date.
“We are very pleased with this year’s selection,” said Joel Peresman, CEO and President of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “People are always trying to pigeonhole what rock and roll is, but we’ve always said it’s a broad field. It spans all kinds of genres. We think this class really shows the full breadth of the genre. When you have Missy Elliott, Sheryl Crow and the Spinners along with Rage Against The Machine and Willie Nelson, you cover a lot.”
The recording of Nelson caps an incredible week for the country icon – he turned 90 and celebrated it with a two-day all-star concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Is Kate Bush Coming?
For Kate Bush, the honor follows a surge of renewed interest in her work thanks to the repeated use of her 1985 classic “Running Up That Hill” in the latest season of Stranger Things. This resulted in the song re-entering the charts worldwide and hitting #3 on the Hot 100 in America. Before that, none of their songs had charted higher than number 30 in the US. “I just can’t believe it,” she wrote to her fans as the song peaked last year. “It all feels a bit surreal.”
Bush has never toured America, and she has performed live on very few occasions in her career. “I hope she comes and performs,” says Peresman. “We open this door. It’s up to her. We’d be happy if she did. It would be a good opportunity for people to experience them and learn more about them. That’s part of our mission. It’s about educating and inspiring people about all types of personalities. Not everyone who knows Kate Bush will be familiar with the Spinners and vice versa. If everyone can learn something about each other, that’s part of our job.”
This article is a translation of text from rollingstone.com