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Originally posted by Derwood
everyone who wonders why artists didn't get in sooner:
an artist's first album must have been released at least 25 years before they are eligible for the HOF. So they didn't wait till harrison was dead, they just followed the rules.
Amazing to think that Van Halen, Metallica and the like will be eligible soon...man do i feel old
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Actually it's from the time their first "record" is released, which includes singles. Harrison released "All Things Must Pass" in 1970 so he was first eligible in 1995, which was before any of the other Beatles.
Prince was the only one from this class, and for a great while, to be inducted in his first year of eligibility.
Van Halen is already eligible.
Those eligible for the class of 2005 would had to have released a record in or before 1980.
Van Halen released their first album in 1974. Metallica's first release came in 1983