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Bruce Springsteen and members of the E Street Band: from left, Nils Lofgren, Max Weinberg, Clarence Clemons, Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Patti Scialfa and Garry Tallent.

(2003 Getty Images File Photo)

Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. It took 15 years, but the E Street Band will soon, finally, join him there.

The band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence, a special award for sidmen, at the April 10 ceremony at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Other honorees will include Nirvana, Kiss, Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt. Managers who worked with the Beatles (the late Brian Epstein) and the Rolling Stones (Andrew Loog Oldham) will both receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which goes to non-performers.

Tickets will be sold to the general public for the Barclays show, beginning at some point next month.

Kiss have been eligible for the hall for 15 years. Nirvana, in contrast, was eligible for the first time.

Ronstadt's induction will have great sentimental value as she recently announced she is battling Parkinson's disease. She told rollingstone.com it's unlikely she will make it to the ceremony.

Gabriel, who didn't attend in 2010, when he was inducted as a member of Genesis, told rollingstone.com he plans to attend this time.

It was not a good year for rap. NWA and L.L. Cool J, who were both finalists, didn't make it. Among the other nominated acts who were overlooked were Yes, Deep Purple, Link Wray, Chic, the Replacements, the Meters, the Zombies and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

With the enticing possibilities of Kiss doing their arena theatrics, Dave Grohl and Kurt Novoselic of Nirvana reuniting, and the E Street Band backing Springsteen for a mini-set, this is not going to be an easy ticket to get. The following information was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's official press release:

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