Rock & Roll HOF ballot taps Van Halen, Patti Smith, Stooges & R.E.M for 2007

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NEW YORK, NY (October 30, 2006) – R.E.M., Van Halen, the Stooges and Patti Smith headline nine acts on the ballot for the 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. The ceremony will be held March 12 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The ballot also includes the Dave Clark Five, Chic, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Joe Tex and the Ronettes.

Five artists will be chosen for the final list of inductees, to be announced in January. To be eligible for induction, the 2007 class had to release their first single no later than 1981.

Black Sabbath, the Sex Pistols, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blondie, Miles Davis and record moguls Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss were enshrined in the Hall earlier this year.