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Leon Russell has written or co-written some of the most covered songs in pop music history ("This Masquerade," "Superstar," "Stranger In A Strange Land," "Delta Lady"), was the arranger and band leader for one of the most amazing rock tours ever (Mad Dogs and Englishmen, featuring Joe Cocker), and has performed with virtually every important group and performer of the rock era (George Harrison at the Concert For Bangla Desh, the Stones, Eric Clapton, and many more). For some reason he's not in, and Donna Summer and Madonna are. Go figure. It would be nice if the so-called Rock Hall of Fame put talent in their hall instead of celebrities, obscure acts, and one-hit wonders.

Marketing the Hall figures in -- an all-ages appeal. The soundtrack of your coming of age, in whatever era that happened, will always hook you.

There's a harsher section about this at Wikipedia.

Leon Russell may have been too much in the background to ring the committee's bells.

But I'd have thought Jim Rice would be in the Baseball Hall of Fame by now, too.

Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters (and the obvious variant) was one of the big lines of the time and perhaps people don't even know that MC5 came up with it. Apparently they also don't know that MC5 was THE Detroit rock sound and was one of the hardest rockin' bands I've ever heard. They were one of my favorites so I'm a wee bit biased.

KISS is pretty obvious as rockers were always very smug that the band was too commercial or too whatever to be a 'real' band, despite the unique act, unique sound, and the millions of people who even today love what they do.

I usually couldn't be bothered with lists of things but this one was most interesting. Thanks!

(By the way, the Captcha is evil. I don't think I've ever got a comment to go through the first time and I'm up to number six on this one. I'm using NetNewsWire on a Mac.)