lastdecember said:

Timmy84 said:

That's why I'm not so convinced Whitney will get in. Janet had more of a rock attitude onstage than Whitney lmao

Well thats the whole thing, i mean why not Manilow? he def had the numbers, 25 straight top 40 hits? and sure rock is attitude but plenty have attitude that arent in, and alot were Rock Stars and never will get in or mentioned, examples, INXS (michael hutchence the last rock star ever) and Rick Springfield was a hitmaker since 1972 first as folk then as rock icon.

Manilow ain't getting in. I can see INXS getting in, don't know what year. As for Rick?

Timmy84 said:

lastdecember said:

Well thats the whole thing, i mean why not Manilow? he def had the numbers, 25 straight top 40 hits? and sure rock is attitude but plenty have attitude that arent in, and alot were Rock Stars and never will get in or mentioned, examples, INXS (michael hutchence the last rock star ever) and Rick Springfield was a hitmaker since 1972 first as folk then as rock icon.

Manilow ain't getting in. I can see INXS getting in, don't know what year. As for Rick?

yeah Manilow wont, though should. INXS i dont think ever will at least not until they run out of people to nominate, they are considered the low rung of the 80's groups, to me i think REM and u2 are the only ones that they are letting in, i think Jovi is not going to get it, depeche mode will never see it, inxs a serious long shot, and duran duran probably never either. I wont even mention a-ha, though they just got in norways and the uk is going to nominate them rightly so.

As for Rick, hes not going to get a chance because he was on TV and he will never get that music cred because people feel the soap opera made him, which is untrue, and people think he is like some "monkees" artist where he really doesnt play or write anything, which also is insane since he was doing music long before the tv show, in fact cracked the top 20 in 1972 and had a gold record, so shows what they know

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^ Didn't he have like some scandal in '74 that kept him from becoming more popular in music or something that he ended up doing soaps anyway? I think his relationship with a still-teenage Linda Blair was a factor.

[Edited 11/3/11 15:42pm]

Ah I found it, Rick's label at the time was accused of using payola to sell Rick's music in the '70s. This hampered his career for several years until '81 of course.