Congratulations to the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees!

Congratulations to the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees!

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation has announced ABBA, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges as its 2010 artist inductees. Also being inducted this year as individual recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award will be David Geffen and songwriters Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell. The ceremony will take place on March 15, 2010 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City and will air live on Fuse, Madison Square Garden’s national music television network, as part of the three-year broadcast deal between the Foundation and Fuse.

“We are very happy to present this year’s inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as they represent a great cross-section of artists that define the broad spectrum and history of rock and roll and people that have contributed immeasurably to our business” says Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation President & CEO Joel Peresman.

The performer inductees are:

ABBA

GENESIS

JIMMY CLIFF

THE HOLLIES

THE STOOGES

Ahmet Ertegun Award (nonperformers):

DAVID GEFFEN

BARRY MANN & CYNTHIA WEIL

ELLIE GREENWICH & JEFF BARRY

JESSE STONE

MORT SHUMAN

OTIS BLACKWELL

The 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performer inductees were chosen by more than 500 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. Artists are eligible for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twenty-five years after their first recording is released.

All inductees are ultimately represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Through approaches as creative and diverse as the music itself, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

tells the story of

via Congratulations to the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees!.

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