Bryan Adams nominated for Songwriters HoF

The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its nominees for the Class of 2025.

In the Performing Songwriters category the nominees are:

• Bryan Adams
• Boy George — real name George Alan O’Dowd
• George Clinton
• Sheryl Crow
• Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons of The Doobie Brothers
• Eminem — real name Marshall Mathers
• David Gates of Bread
• Janet Jackson
• Tommy James
• Mike Love
• Alanis Morissette
• Dr. Dre, Easy E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella of N.W.A
• Steve Winwood

Non-Performing Songwriters:

• Walter Afanasieff – “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
• Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan – “Secret Agent Man,” “Eve of Destruction”
• Mike Chapman – “Love Is a Battlefield,” “Ballroom Blitz”
• Sonny Curtis – “Love Is All Around (Theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show),” “I Fought the Law”
• Tom Douglas – “The House That Built Me”
• Franne Golde – “Nightshift”
• Ashley Gorley – “I Had Some Help”
• Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins – “Say My Name”
• Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter – “One Tin Soldier (Theme from Billy Jack),” “Don’t Pull Your Love,” “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got)”
• Tony Macaulay – “Baby Now That I’ve Found You,” “Build Me Up Buttercup”
• Roger Nichols – “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays”
• Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham – “I’m Your Puppet,” “Cry Like a Baby”
• Narada Michael Walden – “How Will I Know,” “Freeway of Love”

To be nominated, a songwriter “with a catalog of notable songs” qualifies for induction 20 years after their “first significant commercial release of a song.”

The Class of 2025 will be announced next year with the ceremony held each June in New York.

Unlike the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, there is no physical Songwriters Hall of Fame.