Hall of Fame Reasons

All the nominees are deserving, but they can't all get in this year.

The singer was a pioneer for female artists and a powerhouse hitmaker.

Phil Lynott and his colleagues brought a new level of storytelling to heavy music, and deserve to be honored for it.

He became an underground sensation, a hit-music maker and then a huge influence on successive generations of singer-songwriters.

They're influential, artsy and one of the most visual bands on the planet. Why aren't they in the HOF yet?

She's already enshrined as a member of Fleetwood Mac - but Stevie Nicks deserves her own place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Eligible for induction since 2004, they were a finalist once, in 2012.

The singer-songwriter once said his career was marked by "consistency of inconsistency," and there's perhaps no more apt description.

The veteran rockers are nominated for the first time in 2018. Their enshrinement is long overdue.

Judas Priest has released a string of classics while becoming a sturdy influence on legions of acts.