This Year’s Rock ‘N Roll Hall Of Fame Class Reacts To Induction

Several of this year's inductees have been in the running on previous occasions – N.W.A. four times and Deep Purple three times - while both Miller and Chicago have been eligible for years but never nominated. Needless to say all were happy with their inclusion.

Among the reactions:

"Usually I'm a man of many words, but this has got me in a tizzy here," Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen told Rolling Stone. "I'm verklempt. I don't know what to say. It's very exciting."

Steve Miller told Rolling Stone he was “very pleased and happy” about the induction especially since it took a long time for him to even get nominated. “After a while you just kind of go, ‘This is taking an awful long time,’” he said." I'm glad they took their time. I'm sure they made the right decision.”

Considering Deep Purple has had so many members over the years, drummer Ian Paice, Purple's sole remaining founding member, admitted to Billboard the ceremony will likely be a “somewhat complicated situation.” As for how he felt about finally getting in he told Rolling Stone, “I knew it would probably happen one day. I do appreciate how difficult it probably was for them to do it with so many lineups, so many different members. It's a minefield, really. I suppose it's rather nice.”

Chicago won the fan vote to get in with 23.4% of the vote but it seems the fans were more upset the band hadn’t been recognized for years than the actual bandmembers. “If you're nominated for a GRAMMY and you don't get it, you don't have a heart attack," co-founder/keyboardist Robert Lamm told Rolling Stone. "You just move on and keep working. That's really what my attitude always was." Still he calls news of the induction “quite gratifying.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is set to take place April 8th at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.