The Rock Hall of Fame is welcoming six legends including KISS and Nirvana in its 29th annual induction ceremony.
The inductees, which also comprise Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens, will be honored on April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., USA TODAY reported.
The ceremony, which will air as an HBO special in May, will be open to the public.
"We know that engaging the fans is a huge opportunity," said Joel Peresman, president/CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. "It gives them a chance to be a part of the ceremony, but it also adds a palpable energy to the event. Once we decided to open the ceremony to the public in New York, that had a huge impact on the decision to have it at Barclays Center."
Artists are eligible for the honor 25 years after their first recording is released. The Rock Hall of Fame members are selected by 700 voters made up of artists, historians and music industry professionals. The new inductees will also be honored with an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
The Rock Hall of Fame used influence from fans for the second year in a row, allowing fans to vote online. Of the nearly 1.4 million fan votes, KISS and Nirvana received the most with 239,000 and 218,000, respectively.
"The five artists with the highest number of votes (three of whom will be inducted) made up a fans' ballot, which counted as a single vote in choosing this year's honorees," USA TODAY said.
Yes, with 151,000 fan votes, and Deep Purple, with 166,000, were strongly supported by fans but lost in the overall balloting.
While both KISS and Stevens had been nominated for the honor before, the rest of the 2014 inductees had received nominations for the first time.
Artists are selected for the Rock Hall of Fame based on their unique contributions to music.
"All of the 2014 inductees introduced us to something new," Peresman says. "They might have drawn from their predecessors or built on what came before them, but they all took something from their roots, transformed it, made it their own and brought it to the world at the right time."
Late Beatles manager Brian Epstein and former Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham will also be honored at the ceremony.
Tickets for the April event will go on sale next month. For more information, go to www.rockhall.com.
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