Prince

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Performer

Inducted: 2004

Inducted by: OutKast and Alicia Keys

Nominated: 2004

First Eligible: 2004 Ceremony

Snubbed Members: Matt "Atlanta Bliss" Blistan, Lisa Coleman, Dez Dickerson, Matt Fink, Eric Leeds, Brown Mark, Wendy Melvoin, Susannah Melvoin, Bobby Z


Induction Ceremony Songs:

SongPerformed By
Let's Go Crazy  Prince
Kiss  Prince
Sign o' the Times  Prince

Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 2004 (ranked #35) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
Purple Rain82020
Sign o' the Times452020
19991302020
Dirty Mind3262020
Purple Rain762012
Sign o' the Times932012
19991632012
Dirty Mind2062012

R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Purple Rain (1984)182021
When Doves Cry (1984)372021
Kiss (1986)852021
1999 (1982)3392021
Little Red Corvette (1982)3602021
Adore (1987)4312021

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Dirty Mind (1980)
Controversy (1981)
1999 (1982)
Purple Rain (1984)
Around the World in a Day (1985)
Parade (1986)
Sign O' The Times (1987)
Diamonds and Pearls (1991)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
I Wanna Be Your Lover (1979)
Little Red Corvette (1982)
Delirious (1982)
1999 (1982)
Purple Rain (1984)
When Doves Cry (1984)
Let's Go Crazy (1984)
Darling Nikki (1984)
I Would Die 4 U (1984)
Raspberry Beret (1985)
Kiss (1986)
Sign 'o' the Times (1987)
U Got the Look (1987)
Cream (1991)
Diamonds and Pearls (1991)
Gett Off (1991)
7 (1992)

Prince @ Wikipedia



Comments

13 comments so far (post your own)

WHAT THE F--- 2016?!?

R.I.P. Prince. Legendary singer who will be missed!

Posted by SotN on Thursday, 04/21/2016 @ 13:16pm


Since Christmas we've lost so many legends. This year needs to stop!

RIP Prince

Posted by Gassman on Thursday, 04/21/2016 @ 13:45pm


NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prince was always one of my favorite musicians and a true musical genius in every sense of the word. He transcended musical genres/trends/styles. So much more to say, but I'll miss him and regret never seeing him in concert.

Posted by Nick on Thursday, 04/21/2016 @ 14:30pm


There aren't a lot of ways that neither David Bowie or Merle Haggard are the biggest loss in music in a year, but this is sadly one of them. RIP to the artist that got me into funk-rock and then into the legendary funk of George Clinton and Bootsy Collins and countless others. He has changed my life so much.

Posted by Max on Thursday, 04/21/2016 @ 18:20pm


One of the greatest guitarists I've ever seen. RIPaisley, Prince.

Posted by Paul in KY on Friday, 04/22/2016 @ 07:13am


Has anyone else besides me notice that in most (if not all) stories headlining Prince's death leave out the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' part. Just an observation, I guess for me. It did show that he was a RRHOFer in some articles. The point I'm making is this just shows how less serious the Rock Hall is taken seriously these days, especially with media. At least I hope that's the case.


Side note: Glad you got to see him, Paul! Unfortunately I never did. You probably remember that conservation we had last fall about how Prince always wanted to do Bonnaroo (so I read)...and he could have. Apparently he was planning a future impromptu show in St. Louis a few days before his death.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Saturday, 04/23/2016 @ 22:16pm


Jason Voigt: Yet one clip that I've seen posted everywhere since his passing has been the 2004 induction ceremony jam with his amazing guitar solo to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Also most I've seen have had his induction somewhere in the article, just no in the headline or the beginning of the piece.

Posted by Gassman on Sunday, 04/24/2016 @ 00:35am


You're absolutely right, Gassman. I have seen several post that clip all over social media (I think that was 2004?). This brings me to a new theory: maybe the artists/bands that will give a great performance and sell tickets are the ones being inducted. It's no wonder we haven't seen the Spinners, or hell, even Chic get inducted yet possibly because of this.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Sunday, 04/24/2016 @ 11:38am


Just seen on TV, Jason. Never saw Prince live. Sure wish I had.

Posted by Paul in KY on Monday, 04/25/2016 @ 08:04am


Paul Stanley writes of Prince's hip replacement surgery pain, and not to be quick to judge treatment for pain. Sheila E. speaks of the pain Prince has been in since his 2010 hip replacement surgery. Doctors claim flu & Percocet can be a tricky combination.

So if any of these Percocet/hip replacement surgery pain/flu rumors are at any level true, we may not have a drug addiction or even an overdose situation, but a bad reaction to a painful surgery, years of coping with unrelenting pain, and the body being weakened by one of the worst years for flu problems.

The way everything has been sounding, I'm expecting another Heath Ledger style death - ordinary prescription drugs, ordinary over-the-counter drugs, in just the precisely wrong combination.

You know what wouldn't have killed him? Marijuana for the pain he was having!

For the last 15 years of his life Prince was a Jehovah's Witness, that might be why he didn't toke.

Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness too!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/25/2016 @ 22:02pm


Why wasn't his band The Revolution also included in the induction?

Posted by Joel on Monday, 06/6/2016 @ 15:35pm


THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

2001: Michael Jackson
2004: Prince
2008: Madonna
2019: Janet Jackson

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 05/7/2019 @ 11:16am


Prince was a ARTIST I know a lot of you can't get that your use to being entertained but a artist is out of most people's realm ...his genius is beyond what most can even see he has more God given talent in one finger that 99%of the now so call entertainers ...GREAT JOB RRHF...IF PRINCE IS ONE OF ERIC CLAPTON FAVORITE ..ENOUGH SAID

Posted by Lisa carroll [email protected] on Monday, 12/14/2020 @ 15:21pm


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