Ahead of tonight’s inductions at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, which will honour Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and more, Matt Sorum (ex-Guns N’Roses), Glen Hughes (ex-Deep Purple), Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) and John Varvatos spoke at a panel discussion presented by Klipsch Audio on April 6th in New York City.

"It will be a little disjointed," former Deep Purple bassist/singer Glenn Hughes admitted to Billboard on the evening of the Klipsch Audio event. "A couple of us aren't going to be there because they're dead, and a couple... or three... or four... aren't being inducted."

And then there's Ritchie Blackmore, the band's most iconic guitarist, who has made it clear he will not be attending. "I can't lie to you. I wish I could tell you we're all brothers, but we don't get together enough," Hughes laments. "But I hope we can be a band, a family [at the induction ceremony]."

Hughes says he recently made a last-ditch effort to get Blackmore to attend the RRHOF ceremony, but couldn't even get him on the phone.

"I did try to coax him into it," Hughes says. "His wife answered the phone and said, 'He's not coming.' It was very normal - there wasn't any back and forth. 'He's not coming but he loves his fans,' that's what I was told to say."

Regardless, Hughes seems genuinely humbled by the impending honour. "We're so stricken with gratitude. It's strange thing to say 'stricken with gratitude,' but I am."

Read the full story at Billboard.com.

It's amazing, challenging and paradoxically both mind-blowing and heartbreaking to see the lives and careers of six of music's most influential stars packed into a 750-square-foot space, reports Cleveland.com.

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame - the facility has dropped the word "museum'' from its name - has managed to accomplish all that with an exhibit that honours the Hall Of Fame Class of 2016.

Performers Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, Steve Miller, N.W.A. and Ahmet Ertegun honoree Bert Berns officially will become members of the Hall Of Fame in ceremonies tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Those ceremonies will be simulcast at the Rock Hall (tickets are $23.50, and available online at tickets.rockhall.com) at 7 PM Friday.

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