If they let in Janet Jackson, next year Tito will be on the list.
Chicago changed partway through its career to gain success on the AOR charts. Not my style, but their fans loved them. Lots of Hall-of-Famers score on the AOR charts, so they can’t really be separated completely from rock.
I’ll still take Chicago’s first album, which was filled with wonderful music that didn’t sound like very much else at the time.
I thought they changed to get on the MOR charts (soft rock or whatever it was called back then, perhaps nothing more fancy than the Top 40).
I any event I was a huge fan who was completely done with them by 1979.
King Crimson was all of those things, yet they still are on the outside looking in.
It’s very simple-the voting board has been consistently pre-selected based on nothing more than a series of biases by the puppet masters in question (starting with that RS guy).
To some extent, Chicago’s turn toward mellow pop reflected the loss of Terry Kath. The band had always recorded some of Peter Cetera’s love ballads and pop tunes, but those songs became more prominent after Kath shot himself.
Janet Jackson was an absolute giant of popular music. She was as important an artist as Dire Straits or Tom Petty. It would be ridiculous to exclude her.
Tito Jackson isn’t much more important to music history than I am.
I’m not a big fan of Janet Jackson, but she WAS hugely popular, and would be a deserving Hall of Famer.