2012: After numerous fan protests, The MIRACLES were FINALLY inducted into the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, some 25 years AFTER Smokey Robinson's controversial 1987 SOLO induction. Everybody KNOWS that Smokey shouldn't have been inducted solo back then. ALL of The MIRACLES should have gone in.
Now , the ENTIRE GROUP are inducted, but it was a bittersweet victory at best. RONNIE WHITE died in 1995. MARV TARPLIN died in 2011. BOBBY ROGERS was too sick to attend his induction, and sadly, died in 2013.
There are now only 3 original Miracles left: SMOKEY, PETE, and CLAUDETTE. The Rock Hall waited FAR TOO LONG to honor and induct this legendary , pioneering group....in favor of numerous FAR LESS DESERVING ACTS.
ALL of THE MIRACLES should have gotten inducted in 1987....NOT JUST SMOKEY.