Madonna, John Mellencamp, the Beastie Boys, Donna Summer, Chic, Afrika Bambaataa, Leonard Cohen, The Dave Clark Five and The Ventures are the nine nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ►
The most important singer-songwriter of his entire generation, and the founding father of the entire genre, the lugubriously toned Leonard Cohen was born in 1934, and was well into his 30s by the time he cut his first album, the landmark Songs of Leonard Cohen in 1968. ►