Lou Reed, Green Day, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Joan Jett will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the 2015 class of inductees along with influential blues bandleader Paul Butterfield, R&B singer-songwriter Bill Withers and, for the annual early influence inductee, doo-wop group the "5" Royales.
The results lined up closely with the outcome of the latest round of fan voting, even though the millions of ballots cast by fans resulted in just a single vote for each of the top five vote-getters. The public went for Vaughan, Jett, Withers and Butterfield, along with industrial rock group Nine Inch Nails.
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