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2024 Inductee Dennis Thompson earned the nickname “Machine Gun” through his aggressive drumming with Detroit’s Motor City 5. Influenced by Elvin Jones and Keith Moon, Thompson’s fast, hard-hitting drumming appeared on the MC5’s groundbreaking 1969 LP Kick Out the Jams and on both of the group’s 1970s studio albums, "Back in the USA" and "High Time".

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Featured on every one of the band’s albums since 1973’s ELO 2, keyboardist Richard Tandy was crucial in ELO’s creation of a realm where rock and classical music could exist together.

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1994 Inductee Duane Eddy was a rock & roll guitar god who invented twang, with a string of instrumental hits in the late 1950s that influenced countless musicians.