Radiohead, Janet Jackson, Cure lead 2019 Rock Hall of Fame class

Pop icon Janet Jackson , angst rockers Radiohead and postpunk innovators The Cure on Thursday earned spots in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, organizers announced. Also joining the Hall in the Class of 2019 is American folk rock legend Stevie Nicks, already an inductee with her band Fleetwood Mac, but now also honored as a solo artist.

British heavy metal group Def Leppard, pop experimentalists Roxy Music and English psychedelic rock harmonists The Zombies round out the list of artists entering the shrine to rock culture. The Cleveland-based Hall of Fame -- which surveyed more than 1,000 musicians, historians and industry members to choose the winners -- will honor the seven acts in a gala concert on March 29 in New York.

The inclusion of Janet Jackson -- whose socially conscious, sexually provocative and eminently danceable tracks made her a household name in the 1980s -- comes as the Hall of Fame increasingly expands its definition of rock to include other genres like R&B. Acts can be inducted 25 years after their first commercial music release.