VAN HALEN BEING INDUCTED THE 'ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME'

Van Halen will be inducted into America's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, REM, the Ronettes and Patti Smith. A panel of 600 industry experts selected the five artists to be inducted at the annual ceremony on March 12 in New York. Van Halen, a 1980s hard rock quartet led by guitarist Eddie Van Halen, outrageous lead vocalist David Lee Roth, and Sammy Hagar, put out hits such as Jump and Dreams. REM was regarded as the quintessential indie rock band until breaking through to mass success in the early 1990s with songs like Losing My Religion.