The Songwriters Corridor of Fame has a brand new class of inductees, together with Timbaland, R.E.M., Steely Dan, Hillary Lindsey and Dean Pitchford.
The group introduced its 2024 class on Wednesday, and the famed songwriters can be formally inducted on June 13. The occasion will happen in New York Metropolis on the Marriott Marquis Resort.
“I’ve stated it earlier than, however the music business doesn’t exist with out songwriters delivering nice songs first. With out them there isn’t any recorded music, no live performance enterprise, no merch … nothing, all of it begins with the track and the songwriter,” Nile Rodgers, chairman of the Songwriters Corridor, says in an announcement.
“We’re due to this fact very proud that we’re regularly recognizing among the culturally most vital songwriters of all time and that the 2024 slate represents not simply iconic songs but in addition variety and unity throughout genres, ethnicity and gender, songwriters who’ve enriched our lives and actually enriched music and the lives of billions of listeners all around the world.”
Timabland has been a top-notch, modern music producer and songwriter for the final three a long time. He has labored intently alongside Missy Elliott — who turned the primary feminine rapper inducted into the Songwriters Corridor in 2019 — and lent his magic to songs like Jay-Z’s “Large Pimpin,” Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On,” Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack,” Ginuwine’s “Pony” and far more.
Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Invoice Berry and Mike Mills can be inducted as members of R.E.M., who’ve written the band’s hits equivalent to “Dropping My Faith,” “Everyone Hurts” and “It’s the Finish of the World as We Know It (and I Really feel Nice).” Founding members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — who died in 2017 — can be inducted on behalf of Steely Dan, who launched their debut album in 1972 and had hits like “Do It Once more” and “Rikki Don’t Lose That Quantity.”
Pitchford gained the very best authentic track Oscar for writing “Fame” from Fame; he additionally earned Oscar nods for writing “Footloose” and “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” from Footloose, and “After All” from Probabilities Are. He has additionally been nominated for seven Grammys and a Tony.
Lindsey, a three-time Grammy winner, has largely collaborated with nation music artists, co-writing hits like Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel,” Little Large City’s “Lady Crush” and Keith City’s “Blue Ain’t Your Coloration.” She labored intently with Woman Gaga on A Star Is Born and Joanne, co-writing hits like “At all times Bear in mind Us This Approach,” “Million Causes” and “I’ll By no means Love Once more.”
