Members of the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols, inducted in 2006, refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum "a piss stain" and "urine in wine". In 2018, when British rock band Dire Straits were inducted, bandleader Mark Knopfler did not attend the ceremony and offered no official explanation, leaving bassist John Illsley to say: "He just didn't feel like coming, it's as simple as that. It just didn't appeal to him, and I appealed to him on several occasions." In response to Oasis' nomination for the Class of 2024, Liam Gallagher disparaged the hall on X, declaring that "there's something very fishy about those awards", "it's all a load of bollox ", and referring to its members as "bumbaclarts".
Members of the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols inducted in 2006, refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum "a piss stain" and "urine in wine". In 2018, when British rock band Dire Straits were inducted, bandleader Mark Knopfler did not attend the ceremony and offered no official explanation, leaving bassist John Illsley to say: "He just didn't feel like coming, it's as simple as that. It just didn't appeal to him, and I appealed to him on several occasions." In response to Oasis' nomination for the Class of 2024, Liam Gallagher disparaged the hall on X, declaring that "there's something very fishy about those awards", "it's all a load of bollox ", and referring to its members as "bumbaclarts".