Hall of Fame Reasons

All the nominees are deserving, but they can't all get in this year.

The singer was a pioneer for female artists and a powerhouse hitmaker.

They've had huge hits and health issues, breakups and hiccups, and seemingly countless comings and goings, then reunion and triumph.

Phil Lynott and his colleagues brought a new level of storytelling to heavy music, and deserve to be honored for it.

Each artist nominated for next year's class deserves induction.

Eligible for induction since 2004, they were a finalist once, in 2012.

German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk deserve to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The band's politically charged fusion of heavy rock and rap deserves a place in the Rock Hall.

Bryan Ferry and company arrived as the patchouli-oiled '60s faded, with a look and feel like no one else.

The singer-songwriter once said his career was marked by "consistency of inconsistency," and there's perhaps no more apt description.