Green Day Inducting Stooges Into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Listen up, high school kids wearing Hot Topic clothes and writing "punk as fuck" on your binders. We know all of you think Green Day are as punk as you can get, but today's "punk" (can it even be called that?) basically owes everything to The Stooges.

Whether Green Day can be considered punk is a matter of debate, but they clearly draw much from early punk bands like The Stooges. Hell, all modern "punk" bands do. So it's only appropriate Green Day will induct the proto-punks into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame next month.

The Stooges will be one of the acts to enter the Hall on March 15 at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria in a ceremony that will be televised on Fuse at 8:30 p.m. ET.

Also appropriately, the BeeGees' Barry and Robin Gibb will induct ABBA into the Hall, while Phish's Trey Anastasio will do the honours for Genesis. Wyclef Jean will usher Jimmy Cliff in, while Jackson Browne will induct music executive David Geffen and Steve Van Zandt will handle The Hollies. Carole King has been given the huge task of inducting Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell.

Artists are eligible for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after they've released their first recording. A panel of 500 voters from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation decides who makes the cut.

Last year's inductees included Metallica, Run-D.M.C., Jeff Beck and Wanda Jackson.