Innovative rap group Outkast, pop star Cyndi Lauper and 1960s pioneer Chubby Checker have all won places in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

This year's inductees were revealed live on American Idol, with the UK represented by hard rock band Bad Company and gravel-voiced eccentric Joe Cocker, 11 years after his death from lung cancer.

However, Manchester bands Oasis and Joy Division/New Order failed to qualify from the shortlist.

Performers become eligible for inclusion 25 years after the release of their first commercial recording. The nominations are voted on by more than 1,200 music historians, industry professionals and previously inducted artists.

The full list of performers to be inducted this year is:

• Bad Company
• Chubby Checker
• Joe Cocker
• Cyndi Lauper
• Outkast
• Soundgarden
• The White Stripes

Salt-N-Pepa, the first commercially successful female rap group, will also receive the musical influence award, alongside Warren Zevon – a cult singer-songwriter who was revered by Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

The induction ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on 8 November, and will be streamed live on Disney+.

"Each of these inductees created their own sound and attitude that had a profound impact on culture and helped to change the course of Rock & Roll forever," said the Hall of Fame's chairman John Sykes.

"Their music gave a voice to generations and influenced countless artists that followed in their footsteps."

However, equal amounts of attention will be paid to the artists who didn't make it into the hallowed hall, which encompasses all genres of popular music.

Mariah Carey's omission, in particular, will be seen as an egregious oversight.

With 19 US number one singles, she is second only to The Beatles in terms of chart success.

Her self-titled debut album spent 11 weeks at the top of the Billboard chart in 1990, and her Christmas classic, All I Want For Christmas Is You, is the 11th best-selling single of all time.

This is the second time she has been overlooked by the Rock Hall's voters.

Asked for her thoughts on being snubbed last year, Carey said: "My thoughts are, I didn't get in."

A second snub will embolden critics who say the Hall of Fame has a poor record of admitting women.

Lauper, who did make it through the voting process, was the only other woman on this year's main ballot.

Oasis were also passed over for a second time, having been nominated in 2024.

But singer Liam Gallagher has previously criticised the institution, saying he wasn't interested in receiving an award from "some geriatric in a cowboy hat".

Veteran jam band Phish also missed out on a place – despite winning a fan vote that counted towards this year's ceremony.

However, losing a nomination doesn't mean an artist is disqualified from future ceremonies.

Nile Rodgers and Chic have famously been included on the ballot 11 times. Although the band still hasn't been inducted, Rodgers was honoured at the 2017 ceremony with the Award for Musical Excellence.

Chubby protest

A similar story emerges this year for Checker, whose song The Twist became a global phenomenon in 1960.

The star, now 83, was ignored by the Rock Hall for years, even as contemporaries like Sam Cooke, Bill Haley, Wilson Pickett and Fats Domino were admitted.

In 2001, Checker took out a full-page ad in Billboard magazine calling on the Rock Hall to recognise him for the song that, he said, became "the biggest dance of the century".

"I want my flowers while I'm alive," he wrote. "I can't smell them when I'm dead."

Demanding a statue in the courtyard of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he added: "I will not have the music business ignore my position in the industry."

That wish has finally been granted.

This year's other inductees include Outkast – aka André 3000 and Big Boi.

Known for hits like Ms Jackson, Rosa Parks and Hey Ya!, their swampy Southern rhythms and bohemian take on hip-hop changed the sound of the genre in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Soundgarden, best known for grunge anthem Black Hole Sun, have also earned a place; as have The White Stripes – the garage rock band formed by Jack and Meg White in 1997, whose hits include Seven Nation Army, Hotel Yorba and Fell In Love With A Girl.

Fans will speculate about whether Meg, who hasn't been seen in public since 2009, will attend the induction ceremony.

There are also musical excellence awards for Thom Bell, an architect of the Philadelphia Soul sound, and English pianist Nicky Hopkins, who contributed to records by The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Who.

US guitarist Carol Kaye, whose fretwork can be heard on classic tracks like You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and the theme to Mission: Impossible, receives the same honour.

Finally, record executive Lenny Waronker, who helped develop acts like Madonna, REM and Prince, will receive the Ahmet Ertegun award, given to non-performers who have had a major influence on rock music.

A man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with two deliberate fires in Edinburgh thought to be linked to an ongoing gangland feud.

Kurtis Young made no plea to charges of wilful fire raising, danger to life and attempted murder on separate occasions on 23 March and 4 April following incidents on Hay Drive in Niddrie.

Police believe the attacks are related to two groups targeting each other in a series of incidents in the east and west of the country.

A 24-year-old man was also arrested and charged in Edinburgh for a breach of bail conditions on Friday, Police Scotland said.

Det Ch Supt David Ferry described the attacks, which have centred on residential and business premises in Edinburgh and Glasgow, as "dangerous and abhorrent".

He said: "I want to make it clear that we will not stop until we bring those responsible for this criminality to justice.

"Local officers continue to reassure the public with intelligence-led patrols to disrupt the activities of criminals in our communities."

Young, 41, of no fixed abode, was initially arrested by another police force and was remanded in custody to appear again at Edinburgh Sheriff Court within eight days.

There have now been 26 arrests in connection with a series of firebombing attacks, assaults and reports of shots being fired in Glasgow and Edinburgh since March.

Officers are also investigating whether two other incidents on Tuesday morning are connected to the feud.

Two vehicles were set on fire on Gorgie Road at about 04:40 and a house on Bellenden Gardens, in the Liberton area, was vandalised at about 08:50.

Police said inquiries into both incidents were ongoing.

How the gang feud developed

A series of attacks began on 2 March when a car was set on fire in Edinburgh's Parrotshot area.

A beauty salon in Leith and a garage in Portobello were also targeted over a 10-day period.

Later, shots were reported as being fired at two properties in Niddrie and Pilton in separate incidents.

Further firebomb attacks were reported on another house in Niddrie at the start of April, just as the first property in Glasgow was targeted in the Robroyston area.

A carpet business in Bishopbriggs and another commercial premises in Kirkintilloch were also hit, alongside homes in Glasgow and Stepps.

In April, a 72-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy were assaulted at a house in Egilsay Crescent in Milton, Glasgow.

A 34-year-old man has been arrested after three falcons and their eggs were found missing after a break-in.

Two peregrine falcons and a peregrine lanner falcon hybrid, along with several peregrine eggs, were found to have been stolen or escaped from aviaries near Shaftesbury.

The force said officers who gathered evidence at the rural property after the break-in, which occurred between 22:00 on 13 April and 07:00 BST on 14 April, suggested the birds had "suffered terribly".

The man from Shaftesbury, arrested on suspicion of burglary and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, has been released on police bail as officers continue their investigation.

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Dorset Police said officers were working to find the remaining birds and their eggs so they could get the medical attention they needed to prevent further suffering.

PC Sebastian Haggett, of the Dorset Police Rural Crime Team, said: "Evidence gathered at the scene of this incident suggests that these birds have suffered terribly, with one of them having their primary feathers removed causing injury, while another bird died after its head and legs were removed."

The force added the bird's owners were "heartbroken" by what had happened.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the force.

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