Women invented rock ‘n’ roll. From Big Mama Thornton to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the true liberating trailblazers of the genre were the power packs of music that blasted the bourgeoise with a force that kickstarted pop culture. As Chuck Berry once admitted: “My whole career has been one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe impersonation”. Sadly, there is a notable lack of females in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Show However, predictably, when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF) opened its doors back in 1986, the inductees were all swinging dicks. The first fateful batch selected were: Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and the Everly Brothers. Pity Sister Rosetta Tharpe wasn’t around at the time to proudly proclaim: “Can’t no man play like me”. In the entirety of RRHOF’s history, fewer than 100 women have been inducted. Fortunately, however, one woman brayed down the door in 1987 and at least kickstarted the trickle. It was the one and only Aretha Franklin. Of course, the Hall is a vapid and largely pointless place centred around folks simply wanting to meet their favourite rockers, but if the whole thing’s a party, it hasn’t truly started until the God of Soul has been introduced. Her prowess was not simply limited to being perhaps the greatest singer of all time, she was also a liberating force in her community too. “Being the Queen is not all about singing,” the late soul icon once proclaimed, “It has much to do with your service to people… your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well. Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It can take you right back, it’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” This combination of incredible ability and absolute integrity ensured her place was enshrined in history. On the night in question, Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards – who once declared her the greatest singer of all time – inducted her with a rambling speech. “The dictionary has been used up, there’s no superlatives left, and there’s nothing to read anyway,” he said before strangely bursting into a fit of maniacal laughter as though he’d just remembered his favourite You’ve Been Framed Clip. He then concluded his concise praise by saying: “What can I say about Aretha? You’re in baby. My turn next, maybe?” This just goes to show you, men have somehow always got to make it about them. Thankfully, 50 women have now made it into RRHOF and with the charts now dominated by females, long may the rise continue. Follow Far Out Magazine across our social channels, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Most popular {{#.}}{{#articles}} {{#title}} {{/title}} {{/articles}} {{/.}}
In 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its first group of inductees: Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and the Everly Brothers. Since then, the Hall has added a new class of inductees each year in four categories: Performers, Non-Performers, Sidemen and Lifetime Achievers. The category in which the Hall is most conspicuously lacking, however, is women. Fewer than 100 female
performers have been added since the Hall admitted its first woman—Aretha Franklin—on January 3, 1987. In its second 10 years, women fared better with the Hall of Fame as artists like the Jefferson Airplane (1996), Joni Mitchell (1997), Bonnie Raitt (2000) and the Pretenders (2005) became eligible for induction. Stevie Nicks made history in 2019 by being the first female artist to be inducted twice (first with Fleetwood Mac, in 1998, then as a solo artist). On January 3, 1959, George A. Kasem takes office in the U.S. House of Representatives for California’s 25th District, making history as the first Arab American Congressperson. Kasem, who is of Lebanese descent, was born in Oklahoma and raised in Los Angeles. He ran as a ...read more On January 3, 1973, James Abourezk, a Congressperson representing South Dakota’s 2nd District, takes office in his newly elected role in the U.S. Senate, once again representing his home state. Abourezk, who is of Lebanese descent, was the first Arab American to ever serve in the ...read more On January 3, 1973, a 12-member group headed by George Steinbrenner purchases the New York Yankees for $10 million from Columbia Broadcasting System, which owned the team since 1964. The group includes CBS’s Yankees president Michael Burke, who briefly serves in that role under ...read more On January 3, 1957 Dalip Singh Saund is sworn in as the congressional representative of California’s 29th district. Known to many as “Judge,” and also nicknamed “the Peacemaker,” he is the first Asian, first Indian American, first Sikh and first follower of a non-Abrahamic ...read more Similar to Adolf Hitler, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini did not become the dictator of a totalitarian regime overnight. For several years, he and his allies worked more or less within the confines of the Italian constitution to accrue power, eroding democratic ...read more The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit lands on the Red Planet on January 3, 2004. 21 days later, its twin, Opportunity, also arrived safely. In one of the longest and most successful missions in NASA history, Spirit would survey Martian geography for the next seven years, while ...read more On January 3, 1990, Panama’s General Manuel Antonio Noriega, after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face charges of drug trafficking. Noriega was flown to Miami the following day and crowds of citizens on the ...read more On January 3, 1521, Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, was a professor of biblical interpretation at the University of Wittenberg in Germany ...read more Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb—a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin that holds the mummy of Tutankhamen. When Carter ...read more In an event that heralds the birth of modern Japan, patriotic samurai from Japan’s outlying domains join with anti-shogunate nobles in restoring the emperor to power after 700 years. The impetus for the coup was a fear by many Japanese that the nation’s feudal leaders were ill ...read more On January 3, 1967, Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, dies of cancer in a Dallas hospital. The Texas Court of Appeals had recently overturned his death sentence for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and was scheduled ...read more On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state. Indigenous peoples inhabited the region that would become Alaska for centuries. The European discovery of Alaska came in 1741, ...read more
On January 3, 1993, backup quarterback Frank Reich leads the Buffalo Bills to a 41-38 overtime victory over the Houston Oilers in an American Football Conference (AFC) wild card playoff game that will forever be known to football fans as “The Comeback.” By halftime of the game, ...read more Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later renamed the March of Dimes Foundation, on January 3, 1938. A predominantly childhood disease in the early 20th century, polio wreaked havoc among American ...read more Escalating the tensions that would lead to rebellion and war, the Mexican government imprisons the Texas colonizer Stephen Austin in Mexico City. Stephen Fuller Austin was a reluctant revolutionary. His father, Moses Austin, won permission from the Mexican government in 1821 to ...read more On January 3 1841, writer Herman Melville ships out on the whaler Acushnet to the South Seas. Melville was born in New York City in 1819. A childhood bout of scarlet fever permanently weakened his eyesight. He went to sea at age 19, as a cabin boy on a ship bound for Liverpool. ...read more Matthew Stuart meets with Boston prosecutors and tells them that his brother, Charles, was actually the person responsible for murdering Charles’s wife, Carol. The killing of Carol Stuart, who was pregnant at the time, on October 23, 1989, had touched off a national outrage when ...read more In the climax of deteriorating relations between the United States and Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba, President Dwight D. Eisenhower closes the American embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations. The action signaled that the United States was prepared to take ...read more How many females are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?Scroll through its long list of inductees and you will notice that very few of them aren't men. In fact, only 69 of the 888 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are women — that's just 7.7% over 35 years.
Who is the only female in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?Lady Soul. The first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Franklin was an artist of passion, sophistication and command, whose recordings remain anthems that defined soul music.
How many females are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice?Tina Turner, 81, and Carole King are headed for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame again, becoming only the second and third women to be inducted twice. Turner, who was first inducted in 1991 with Ike Turner, said she was “thrilled to be inducted amongst such amazing artists.”
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