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Rock Hall Tabs Eagles, Fleetwood Mac
Maybe they got the wrong Piano Man.
Just yesterday Daily Variety reported that Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Billy Joel were headed to rock 'n' roll immortality, all making the cut for enshrinement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Well on Thursday afternoon the Hall officially announced its 1998 honorees. Fleetwood Mac was there. So were the Eagles. But Joel was nowhere to be found.
Those Jurassic rockers joining Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles in the Cleveland-based Hall will be: the Mamas and the Papas, Santana, Lloyd Price and Gene Vincent.
Two other non-rocking piano men will also be inducted. Celebrated New Orleans jack-of-all-trades Allen Toussaint (singer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer) gets in, peculiarly enough, as a "non-performer." The final honoree will be another legendary N'Orleans piano-player, the man who claimed to be the original jazzman, the unparalleled "Jelly Roll" Morton, cited as an early rock influence.
Here's a quick glance at the inductees' resumes: After four years on the ballot, Fleetwood Mac is finally in. Earlier this year the band set aside decades of bitterness to mark the 20th anniversary of their landmark Rumours album, and make new, old music again. The result was The Dance, the tour, the album, the big-time moneymaker.
The Eagles embodied the laid-back Southern California sound of the '70s with a repertoire of campfire-friendly, sing-along hits ("Peaceful Easy Feeling," "Already Gone"). The band's greatest hits album is a close second to Michael Jackson's Thriller on the all-time sales list.
The Mamas and the Papas: a harmony-happy West Coast quartet (John Phillips, Denny Doherty, "Mama" Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips) of the '60s. Their hits included "California Dreamin'," "Monday, Monday" and "Dedicated to the One I Love." Elliot choked to death in 1974.
Santana, named after singer and lead guitarist, Carlos Santana, recorded such staples as "Evil Ways," "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va." Over the years Santana has kept plodding along as an oldies act. His most notable (and embarrassing) recent act was to volunteer as lead singer of the Grateful Dead before Jerry Garcia's ashes hit the Ganges. Thankfully, the Dead disbanded rather than hire Carlos.
Vincent, an early, Elvis-style rockabilly singer of the '50s, is best known for "Be-Bop-A-Lula." He died in 1971.
R&B pioneer Price was an early rocker from New Orleans (a city well-represented in this year's list) whose hits included "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "Stagger Lee" and "Personality."
Proficient at all aspects of music-making, Toussaint has penned songs covered by the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, Warren Zevon, the Yardbirds, Boz Scaggs, Bonnie Raitt, even Ringo Starr.
Born Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe in 1885, Jelly Roll and his ensemble, the Red Hot Peppers composed some of the finest music to ever emanate from the Big Easy, including "Jelly Roll Blues," "Wolverine Blues," "Dead Man Blues," "Black Bottom Stomp," "Harmony Blues" and "King Porter Stop." He died in 1941. His life was celebrated in the Tony-winning musical Jelly's Last Jam.
Acts become eligible for the hall of fame 25 years after the release of their first recordings.
In addition to Joel, those on the 1998 ballot who didn't make it: Earth, Wind & Fire, Del Shannon, Dusty Springfield, Iggy Pop's the Stooges, Gene ("Town Without Pity") Pitney, Solomon Burke, soul belter Joe Tex and doo-woppers the Moonglows.
The 14th annual hall of fame ceremony--typically a raucous excuse for an all-night, all-star jam session--is scheduled for January 12 in New York.
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