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Influential acts like the Who, the Kinks, and Simon and Garfunkel were all inducted that year.
It can be easy to forget how entrenched Cher is in rock history.
Between her duets with Bono, like their No.
That didnt last long.
1s by a female recording artist.
Im not a Cher fan, shelater saidof those early 70s hits.
The feeling would inspire her 1975 albumStars, featuring poignant, exceptionally sung Jackson Browne and Eric Clapton covers.
Cher is just no rock and roller, wrote the critic Janet Maslin.
Cher had undeniably become one by 1990, the year she was finally eligible for the Rock Hall.
On one level, thats exactly what shewasdoing.
But thats no crime in fact, its become a blueprint for artists after her.
Her use of Autotune in Believe was predictably criticized at the time, but it proved to be visionary.
Love or hate her voice, it was unique often imitated, never replicated.
Can you blame her for feeling that way?
Madonna, one of Chers biggest followers, was a first-ballot inductee in 2008.
But Cher didnt owe the Hall anything else it owed her.
