I have always thought there were reasons why most Pop/Rock artists got in the
R&R HOF.

1) You or your group were the groundbreakers of a trend/style of rock music.

2) You were "cool" with the late 60's hippie croud and Rolling Stone's rock
critics, in the past or now. 

3) You had a LONG string of hit singles/albums for at least 5 years.

3) You wrote/arranged/played the majority of your music or had a ledgendary
producer-writer-label crew do your music.

4) You recorded for Atlantic/Warners/Elektra/Sire at one time (Atlantic's
founder and president Ahmet Ertegun has been called "The Godfather of
the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame") If you sold millions for the WEA mob its a good
chance youre gonna get in.

5) Your music was hated and wasnt cool with critcs in the past - but time has
now shown that your music has been hugely influential, and its now cool to
accept you. (Zeppelin, AC/DC and ZZ Top, I remember a nasty review of thier
"Tejas" album in RS in 1977.). 

6) If you were a strictly Top 40 artist that pandered to teenage girls and
never attempted to break out of that mold with a "Pet Sounds" or "Genuine
Imatation Life" - no way.  

Just my thoughts,
Billy


At 08:24 PM 3/22/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 3/21/04 11:13:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>wigout6@juno.com writes:
>
>
>> BTW, when are The Monkees going to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
>> 
>
>Sadly (and unfairly), the probable answer is "Never."  Too much prejudice 
>against them for their prefabricated origin; if the RRHoF won't even take
The 
>Hollies seriously, you can bet that The Monkees don't stand a chance.  
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