Ringo Enters the 'Rock And Roll Hall of Fame' | Page 2 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

From the article:

Once an artist is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they then become a voting member.

According to a Wiki article I looked up, only 50% of the voters need to approve a candidate for induction. It doesn’t seem like a high percentage. FWIW, by comparison, a candidate for the Baseball HOF requires at least 75%.

In any event, I’m glad at least half the voters love Ringo as much as we do!

Paul discusses Ringo’s induction briefly with John Stewart toward the end of this interview from Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show – thanks @parlance for alerting me to it. Paul will be at the ceremony once he finds out where it’s going to be.

I would imagine it’s actually 50.1% rather than 50% (that there has to be a majority).

I actually think that’s probably right, as music is much more subjective than something like sports. With sports(wo)men career stats come into these things a lot. With music it’s never as simple as the stats, as often influence can far exceed general awareness of or sales. I can’t see, as an example, a group like The Velvet Underground (inducted in 1996) making it if they had to pass a 75% bar, despite their huge influence on certain areas of music.

You also have the bit where it’s quite easy to compare, using @Zig’s example, baseball players against each other, and come up with a list of the best exponents of the game that a large majority of those involved in the game can agree on. The scope of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is so wide that that’s impossible – how do you compare Metallica (inducted 2009) and Abba (2010), or Patti Smith (2007) and Donna Summer (2013)?

In that, I think a bare majority is fine – otherwise most years you wouldn’t get anyone that reached a 75% bar, and it would be the most anodyne list imaginable.

I do find Ringo’s entry rather insulting myself though. John, Paul and George are all proper inductees, in the main hall, where Ringo has been shunted off into the side-room of “Award for Musical Excellence”, which “honors those musicians, producers and others who have spent their careers out of the spotlight working with major artists on various parts of their recording and live careers”. Previously the category was called “Sidemen”.

Myself, I find that a rather major snub – All the others were good enough on their own for the proper Hall of Fame, and you’re the only one we don’t have on his own, so let’s find somewhere to put you so that you’re included but out of the way.

Here’s a little off-topic throwaway, who’s the only musician to have been inducted three times (as a member of two groups and solo)?

Duke_of_Kirkcaldy said
While I’m happy to hear this, I’d hardly call Ringo’s solo career Hall of Fame-worthy (honestly, I’m not so sure about John’s or George’s, either [deflector shield up]  ).  On the other hand, he’s not being inducted as performer like the other three, but rather as an Award for Musical Excellence recipient.  Still, there are so many worthy acts who still haven’t been inducted: The Pretty Things, The Zombies, The Moody Blues, Manfred Mann, Them, The Move, Badfinger, ELP, ELO, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Procol Harum, Supertramp, Deep Purple…

Always the way with awards (see Peter O’Toole and numerous others with the Oscars).

Hey Jude ! said
 Now only thing which is left to be inducted in Hall is Wings, after that Paul will be a 3 times inductee along with clapton.

*Ahem* Traveling Wilburys? 

^I mean, come on, look how cool they are!