LONG OVERDUE: CANADIAN ROCK LEGENDS "RUSH" GOING INTO HALL OF FAME!

 
Canadian rock legends Rush are finally getting the recognition they deserve.

The trio - consisting of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson - will finally be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after long being considered one of the most egregious omissions.

They will join Heart, Public Enemy, Randy Newman, blues legend Albert King and disco diva Donna Summer as members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2013.

The inductees will be honoured during a special ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on April 18.

Record producers Quincy Jones and Lou Adler will also be celebrated at the event as recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which recognizes non-performers for their outstanding contributions.

Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee admits he was overjoyed by the news of his band's induction, telling Rolling Stone, "It's a terrific honour and we'll show up smiling. It made my mom happy, so that's worth it."

And two-time Oscar winner Newman tells Billboard.com, "I'd like to thank the people who have supported me for all these years. It's a great honour. I'm very happy about it."

SHANIA TWAIN TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE CARAS HALL OF FAME.

Country-pop superstar and newlywed Shania Twain will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame during the 2011 Juno Awards in Toronto on March 27.It will mark the first time that the 45-year-old Twain, a 12-time Juno Award winner, has been at the awards show since she was host of the ceremony in Ottawa in 2003.The Timmins, Ont.-raised Twain has sold more than 41 million albums in the U.S. and 4.2 million albums in Canada, making her the top-selling female artist in history. She also has the sixth biggest selling album of all time with 1997’s Come On Over — at 19 million copies sold — and has had 16 Top-10 hits.

Twain’s autobiography hits bookstores this spring, and she is set to debut a docu-series on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, titled Why Not? With Shania Twain.Twain got hitched on New Year’s Day in Puerto Rico to her second husband and Swiss business executive Frederic Thiebaud, after divorcing music producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who had had an affair with Thiebaud’s ex-wife.