Posted on 11/16/2025 4:23:18 PM PST by DallasBiff
Styx musician Dennis DeYoung is dragging the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The singer-keyboardist, 78, shared a scathing Facebook message on Thursday where he blasted the organization for waiting too long to induct iconic musicians as new members.
“It’s a shame that Bad Company had to wait so long to get in that it rendered Paul Rodgers unable to perform due to health concerns,” DeYoung wrote. “Bollocks!! I would have liked to have seen him perform years ago to demonstrate how one of rock’s premiere singers ACTUALLY ROCKS.”
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Bad Company deserved the Hall more than the Go-Gos or the Cure did. Moreover, Styx had some big hits in the early to mid 70s.
aren’t there a bunch of hip hop ‘artists’ in the rock n roll HOF?
If rock is about being an irreverent outsider…
…why would a band want to be in some zoo-like “hall of fame?”
But he's right about Paul Rodgers. One of the greatest voices in rock.
The rest of styx cant stand deYoung because hes is a jerk. I finally understood what was going on when i watched one of his interviews.
Yeah, but he also wrote Come Sail Away, so let's just pretend Mr. Roboto never happened, OK? Once Tommy Shaw joined the band, it was apparent he was a better song writer, though De Young did some good work on Paradise Theater.
Along with the Rock & Roll "influences" who played little to no Rock/Rock & Roll.
Mr. Roboto is the best song ever.
Dennis has a point: don’t wait until these guys are in the hospital beds, sucking on oxygen before you induct them into the society.
So what? Ted Nugent ain’t even in there. Never been nominated.
Doubt he gives a rat’s ass.
Zackly.
Not Hall of Fame level, but I encountered numerous jerks in a 22 year career.
Teapot Tempest?
“I don’t know, wasn’t Dennis De Young the driving force behind the awful “Mr. Roboto”.”
For every Mr. Roboto, there is a Renegade to make up for it.
Well said. Much of the Hall ‘honors’ have gone to DEI picks.
It has aged very well.
I also say the same for Starship's "We Built This City".
Two songs I absolutely hated when they came out and now I turn them up.
Like the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s no longer a worthy achievement. Like everything else it’s been politicized and cheapened.
They should be in over many of the recent inductees.
Plus a million
Doubt he gives a rat’s ass.
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