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Green Day, Lou Reed, Mpls. native Naftalin elected to Rock Hall of Fame

Others named include Joan Jett, Bill Withers, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, of which Mark Naftalin was a member.

December 16, 2014 at 5:02PM

Green Day perform at ACL Live at the Moody Theater at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, March, 2013. (Dml -/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

To no one's surprise, Green Day made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first year of eligibility.

Also elected was frequent nominee Lou Reed, who died in October 2013 and was a sentimental favorite even though he's already a Rock Hall of Famer as leader of the Velvet Underground.

Other members of this year's class:

-- Blues-rock guitar heroes Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.

-- Punk champion Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

-- Masterful '70s soul man Bill Withers.

-- 1960s blues favorites Paul Butterfield Blues Band, whose keyboardist, Mark Naftalin, grew up in Minneapolis, where his father, Art, was the mayor.

Mark Naftalin. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong also has a Twin Cities tie-in: His wife, Adrienne, is from New Brighton and the couple has a second home in the Twin Cities. Last summer, he played guitar on a few dates with the Replacements (who, ironically, didn't make the Hall of Fame ballot this year despite their much-heralded reunion).

The 30th annual induction ceremonies will be held April 18 in Cleveland.

The aforementioned inductees were voted in by music industry figures, critics and previous Rock Hall inductees.

A Hall of Fame committee also voted to induct 1950s-60s R&B group the 5 Royales as an early influence, and to give Ringo Starr an "Award of Musical Excellence" (he was previously inducted as a member of the Beatles).