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KISS Reaps Plenty Of Online Support In ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Bid

August 8, 2006

The Plain Dealer reports that KISS fans pounded the computer keyboards and the pavement this weekend to make the argument that their favorite band belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

While the KISS Army rallied Saturday outside the Rock Hall, KISS got the most votes in an online poll at www.cleveland.com. Readers were asked to vote on whether 20 artists are worthy of induction and to write in their own nominees.

Close behind KISS (175 votes) were GENESIS with 162 tallies and VAN HALEN at 147. (No distinction was made between GENESIS with Peter Gabriel and GENESIS with Phil Collins or the David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar versions of VAN HALEN.)

CHICAGO and the MOODY BLUES (each 138),YES (129),ALICE COOPER (128),ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA (116),NEIL DIAMOND (103) and THE CARS (95) rounded out the top 10.

German electronic pioneers KRAFTWERK were voted least worthy with only 18 votes.

Fans took the time to write in nominations for dozens of bands. Homeboys the RASPBERRIES led with 59 write-in votes, just ahead of RUSH with 57. Among the others getting at least one vote: CARLY SIMON, TED NUGENT, BARRY MANILOW, DOOBIE BROTHERS, HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS, TOTO, B-52S, MOTÖRHEAD, PHISH, THE SMITHS and ZZ TOP.

See the complete results at www.cleveland.com/rockhall.

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