Styx’s Dennis DeYoung slams ‘shameful’ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in scathing post

New York Post ^ | 11/16/25 | Eric Todisco

[DallasBiff]

I don't know, wasn't Dennis De Young the driving force behind the awful "Mr. Roboto".

[Keyser Soze 84]

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.

[imabadboy99]

aren’t there a bunch of hip hop ‘artists’ in the rock n roll HOF?

[BradyLS]

If rock is about being an irreverent outsider…

…why would a band want to be in some zoo-like “hall of fame?”

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Dennis DeYoung is a stain upon rock and roll.

But he's right about Paul Rodgers. One of the greatest voices in rock.

[plain talk]

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.

[ETCM]

I don't know, wasn't Dennis De Young the driving force behind the awful "Mr. Roboto".

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.

[CatOwner]

aren’t there a bunch of hip hop ‘artists’ in the rock n roll HOF?

Along with the Rock & Roll "influences" who played little to no Rock/Rock & Roll.

[HYPOCRACY]

Mr. Roboto is the best song ever.

[MarlonRando]

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.

[waterhill]

So what? Ted Nugent ain’t even in there. Never been nominated.

Doubt he gives a rat’s ass.

[BradyLS]

Zackly.

[real saxophonist]

Not Hall of Fame level, but I encountered numerous jerks in a 22 year career.

[Paladin2]

Teapot Tempest?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“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.

[SunkenCiv]

Well said. Much of the Hall ‘honors’ have gone to DEI picks.

[Drew68]

Mr. Roboto is the best song ever.

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.

[JZelle]

Like the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s no longer a worthy achievement. Like everything else it’s been politicized and cheapened.

[crusty old prospector]

They should be in over many of the recent inductees.

[Dacula]

Plus a million

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So what? Ted Nugent ain’t even in there. Never been nominated.

Doubt he gives a rat’s ass.