I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. I'm here with Andy Green and we're going to talk about this year's class of inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and also some of the people who were left out. The class in question, the people who made it in are bad company.

Shelby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cindy Lauper, Outcast, Soundgarden, and the White Stripes.

They also pulled in through the Musical Influence Award and the Musical Excellence Awards,

and they're kind of treating these the same as other inductees now,

but what it means is they were pulled in by the Hall of Fame itself,

not the voters. Who makes that decision? Do you know? It's the board itself. Okay, the board itself.

The board is kind of like in severance, I assume. Someone has a headset on and the mysterious board

speaks to them. But their names are public. Nominating committee. Okay, the nominating committee. You said the board.

So the nominee committee. I'm pretty sure are the ones. It's approved by the board, which you know

John Sykes. Gotcha. Okay. Well, anyway, those people are musical influence award goes to

Salton Peppa and the late Warren Zivon and musical excellence award to Tom Bell of Philly Soul

fame and the great session pianist Nikki Hopkins who was the only human being on earth who played

with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who. He played on Revolution by the Beatles and many,

many Stone songs and whose songs

very deserved there. And then another great session musician, Carol Kay, who's just incredible,

bassist, mostly. So that's the class. And then for the Amit Erdogan Award for business people

was Lenny Warrinker. He was president of a bunch of labels, I think, most notably Warner Brothers Records.

Yeah, so that guy too.

And the father of the great drummer.

Yeah, good point.

So that's the class.

There is a little bit more outrage than usual over the people left out.

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