Whitney Houston & Biggie named as inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

[midnightman]

This morning, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame listed six new inductees to their class:

Depeche Mode
The Doobie Brothers
Whitney Houston
Nine Inch Nails
The Notorious B.I.G.
T. Rex

Irving Azoff and Jon Landau were listed as inductees in the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

This marks the first time since 2013 where two black acts were inducted at the same time [[last time was Donna Summer and Public Enemy).

The ten other acts who missed out:
Dave Matthews Band [[first act to win the fan vote to miss the votes to get in; they'll probably won't be likely to be nominated again)
Pat Benatar [[many, including me, had pegged her as an inductee for 2020 so she was the surprise snub)
Soundgarden [[another surprise snub was this one but maybe not so much as Pat because NIN has a bigger hold than I thought)
Judas Priest [[they made #5 on the 2018 fan vote and #5 on this year's fan vote, they missed out yet again!)
Thin Lizzy
Motorhead
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
Todd Rundgren
Kraftwerk [[they didn't get the Early Influence Award as feared by some Hall of Fame watchers)
MC5 [[this will likely be the Detroiters' last hurrah as the 1960s chapter of the Hall may be closed unless other '60s acts like Dionne Warwick finally get a shot)