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Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits Inducted Into The Stone and Roll Hall of FameThe votes are in and succeeding year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class will include Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, Darlene Love and Dr. John. Leon Russell will be experience The Prize For Musical Excellence (formerly the sideman category) and industry legends Jac Holzman and Art Rupe will both have the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

The ceremony will be held March 14 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel and it will be broadcast live on Fuse.Artists are eligible for initiation into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after the issue of their first one or LP. All of this year's inductees, however, started in the 1960s - with the only exception of Tom Waits, who released his first LP Closing Time in 1973.Dr. John, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Was 'Surprised' By the NewsLove feels that the long delay was easily worth it. "I was on my way to Atlantic City in a limo when I got the call," she says. "I started screaming and I thought, 'I certainly hope the driver doesn't mean that my husband's trying to down me.' I was laughing and glaring at the same time."Darlene Love, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Says She's on Cloud NineThe ceremony falls right in the centre of Neil Diamond's Australian tour in March. Nothing is set yet, but Diamond hopes to re-shuffle some dates so he can make it. "I'll get in somehow," he says. "They are running on the details right now. I 'm very hopeful it'll work out because I don't need to escape this . Any order that has Chuck Berry and Little Richard and The Everly Brothers is a society that I wish to be a region of."Neil Diamond, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Says He Feels 'Very Lucky'When Alice Cooper got the tidings he now called his former bandmates in the original Alice Cooper band. "I said 'Well, remember when we started in high school?" he says. "Here we are. It just took 45 years."Alice Cooper, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Was 'Elated' When He Got the NewsCooper plans on playing with the band, something he's only through a smattering of times since they broke up in 1976. "We're trying to flesh out if we do 'School's Out,' do we send balloons of confetti into the interview?" he says. "I doubt there'll be a serpent there though.If you see at the name of past inductees it's all of my heroes, from Pete Townshend to The Yardbirds to The Beatles to The Stones. It's everybody that we listened to in place to become Alice Cooper, so it's pretty amazing that those are the sami people that actually voted for us."