By Steve Newton
Last Sunday the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame–the one located in Cleveland–inducted a bunch of bands and artists, so today Newt’s Rock Hall–the one located near Vancouver–is inducting some of its own.
For the uninitiated, Newt’s Rock Hall is the one created by me 10 years ago to pay homage to the amazing bands and musicians that, for whatever crazy reason, have long been excluded from the “official” Rock and Roll of Fame.
So by the power vested in me, I hereby declare that the following acts be inducted into Newt’s Rock Hall, Class of 2025: Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter, Slade, Canned Heat, Procol Harum, the B-52s, and Alice in Chains.
And since the rules of Newt’s Rock Hall explicitly state that there can be no crossover between artists in the two hallowed institutions, three more acts–Montrose, INXS, and NRBQ–will be retroactively added to previous NRH classes to replace Soundgarden, Bad Company, and Warren Zevon, which the slow-witted RRHOF finally got around to inducting a few days ago.
Here’s the complete list of Newt’s Rock Hall inductees so far. (Can you believe that none of these are in the “official” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet?):
Class of 2025: Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter, Slade, Canned Heat, Procol Harum, the B-52s, and Alice in Chains.
Class of 2024: Scorpions, NRBQ, Midnight Oil, the Shadows, the Black Crowes, Ronnie James Dio, Danny Gatton, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
Class of 2023: the Guess Who, the Replacements, the Edgar Winter Group, Mahogany Rush, the Stray Cats, INXS (replacing Soundgarden, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2025), and Montrose (replacing Bad Company, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2025).
(Please note: due to health concerns my Rock Hall was shuttered during the pandemic, so there were no Classes of 2021 and 2022.
Class of 2020: Rainbow, BTO, Steve Earle, Mahogany Rush, Little Feat, Boston (replacing Judas Priest, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2022), and Badfinger (replacing Todd Rundgren, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2021).
Class of 2019: Mountain, the Cramps, Roy Buchanan, Nazareth, the Georgia Satellites, the New York Dolls, and the Tragically Hip (yes, I’m Canadian).
Class of 2018: Free, Humble Pie, the J. Geils Band, J.J.Cale (replacing the MC5, finally inducted in 2024), Angel City (replacing T. Rex, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2020), and Jeff Healey (replacing Motörhead, finally inducted into the RRHOF 2020).
Class of 2017: Albert Collins, Ronnie Montrose, Rick Derringer, Gary Moore, Jethro Tull, and NRBQ (replacing Warren Zevon, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2025.
Class of 2016: Blue Oyster Cult, Mott the Hoople, UFO, Ten Years After, and Robin Trower.
Class of 2015: Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Iron Maiden, Dick Dale (replacing Link Wray, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2023), and Thin Lizzy (replacing Deep Purple, finally inducted into the RRHOF in 2016).
Subscribe to my Patreon page to hear the full audio of my one-on-one interviews with current and former Newt’s Rock Hall inductees, including J.J. Cale, Gary Moore, Dick Dale, Roy Buchanan, Steve Earle, Robin Trower, Ronnie James Dio, Danny Gatton, Albert Collins, Jeff Healey, Ronnie Montrose, Chris Cornell, Warren Zevon, Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter, and members of Deep Purple (Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse), Iron Maiden (Bruce Dickinson, Dave Murray, and Steve Harris), Judas Priest (Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton), Blue Oyster Cult (Buck Dharma), Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson, Martin Barre), Mountain (Leslie West), the New York Dolls (David Johansen), Boston (Brad Delp), Angel City (Doc Neeson), the Black Crowes (Chris and Rich Robinson), the Guess Who (Randy Bachman), Nazareth (Dan McCafferty), ELP (Greg Lake), the Cramps (Poison Ivy), Scorpions (Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine), Alice in Chains (Jerry Cantrell), NRBQ (Terry Adams, Joey Stampinato), the Georgia Satellites (Rick Richards), Little Feat (Bill Payne), and the Tragically Hip (Gord Downie, Rob Baker).
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