{"id":28351,"date":"2024-01-17T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-17-1996-david-bowie-pink-floyd-more-are-inducted-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T18:01:19","slug":"on-this-day-january-17-1996-david-bowie-pink-floyd-more-are-inducted-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-17-1996-david-bowie-pink-floyd-more-are-inducted-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, January 17, 1996: David Bowie, Pink Floyd &amp; more are inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag-11.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, January 17, 1996\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Bowie<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jefferson Airplane<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>The Velvet Underground<\/strong>\u00a0were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talking Heads<\/strong>\u2019\u00a0<strong>David Byrne<\/strong>\u00a0did the honors of inducting Bowie, while\u00a0<strong>Smashing Pumpkins<\/strong>\u2019 frontman\u00a0<strong>Billy Corgan<\/strong>\u00a0inducted Pink Floyd.\u00a0<strong>Patti Smith<\/strong>\u00a0inducted The Velvet Underground, and\u00a0<strong>Grateful Dead<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Mickey Hart<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Phil Lesh<\/strong>\u00a0inducted Jefferson Airplane.<\/p>\n<p>The night\u2019s other inductees included\u00a0<strong>Gladys Knight &amp; the Pips<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Little Willie John,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>The Shirelles<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Pete Seeger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, January 17, 1996\u2026 David Bowie,\u00a0Pink Floyd,\u00a0Jefferson Airplane\u00a0and\u00a0The Velvet Underground\u00a0were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Talking Heads\u2019\u00a0David Byrne\u00a0did the honors of inducting Bowie, while\u00a0Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 frontman\u00a0Billy Corgan\u00a0inducted Pink Floyd.\u00a0Patti Smith\u00a0inducted The Velvet<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-17-1996-david-bowie-pink-floyd-more-are-inducted-into-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}