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Janet Jackson and Radiohead Lead Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2019

Janet Jackson, Radiohead, Def Leppard and Stevie Nicks will join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next year at its 34th annual induction ceremony, along with the Cure, Roxy Music and the Zombies, the organization announced on Thursday.

The class of 2019, which will formally enter the pantheon on March 29 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, represents a varied cross-section of the last half-century of pop music, with giants of classic and alternative rock, as well as a couple of acts from zones that the hall still glances at only occasionally: dance music and crowd-pleasing 1980s pop-metal.

The seven inductees ? the biggest class since 2004 ? are mostly uncontroversial choices, which may help the hall duck the criticism it has often received because of its opaque internal politics. Three acts ? Def Leppard, Roxy Music and Nicks ? were accepted the first time they appeared on the ballot, while Radiohead and the Cure made it in the second time around.

The artists who didn?t make the cut, including LL Cool J, Kraftwerk and the funk band Rufus, say as much about the makeup of the hall as those that did. Here are some of the themes and inevitable squabbles of the latest Rock Hall class.

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This was the only honour left on her achievements list

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This decade long campaign

Finally she won

[Ulysses]

Fucking legend

[Lazarus]

Well deserved. Long overdue.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/JanetJackson/status/1073203041447350275?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

So proud of her rn

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ACK!

GODIOHEAD

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Kiiiiiiiiiiiiii

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Baph, get tf in hea and BOW, bitch

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Omg, congrats Jan!

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She's received every icon/legend award there is. now she's solidified.
Imagine getting the MTV vanguard at the beginning of your career to end with being inducted into the HOF

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The inclusion of Radiohead and Jackson should please some of the hall?s detractors. Radiohead?s snub last year mystified many observers who saw other 1990s alternative heroes like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Green Day enter the hall the instant they became eligible. And the absence of Jackson, who had been rejected twice before, was seen as symbolic of the underrepresentation of women and people of color.

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That?s nice or whatever
she deserved it a while ago
I?m over the Hall of Crackers