2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, in alphabetical order, starting with Bad Company. UPDATE: Awards for 6 others

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6. Thanks, ProfessorGAC!

Sweet is my all-time favorite band. So, so criminally underrated. Every one of them an absolute virtuoso on his respective instrument. Once they got away from Chinn/Chapman (and even before then, on the B-sides), their music more than proved they deserve to be recognized right up there with the likes of Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Queen. It's a really sad story of bad timing and bad management that ultimately cost them their proper due. Later, Ed Leffler would take all the mistakes he made with them, do the exact opposite, and Van Halen reaped all the benefits.

"Give Us A Wink" clocks in as my favorite (and it was Steve Priest's as well), followed by "Off the Record." Agreed that, while I love Fox and Blitz, they're FAR from their strongest material. These guys were the prototype for metal and punk that all the lipstick in the world couldn't hide.