The induction ceremony for the seven artists will be held at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn on April 7 2017, and will also see Chic’s Nile Rodgers be handed the Award for Musical Excellence.
In order to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 25 years must have passed since an artist has released their first album or single.
For Pearl Jam and Tupac Shakur, 2017 marks the first year of eligibility, and makes them the first acts to be inducted into the institution who started their careers in the 1990s.
For Nile Rogers, the Musical Excellence Award comes after his band Chic were nominated 11 times, but never found themselves inducted.
He told Rolling Stone magazine: “It’s sort of bittersweet. I’m quite flattered that they believed that I was worthy, but my band Chic didn’t win. They plucked me out of the band and said, ‘You’re better than Chic.’ That’s wacky to me ... I am flattered and I think it’s cool, but I feel like somebody put me in the lifeboat and told my family they can’t get in.”
