Parton, Benatar among Rock Hall inductees

After decades of largely excluding women from induction, the voters of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame seem eager to help right the wrongs of the past for the second year in a row.

The seven artists announced Wednesday who will be inducted into the hall’s class of 2022 include country music icon Dolly Parton, versatile songstress Carly Simon and the hardrocking Pat Benatar.

Also voted in is Eurythmics, the long-dormant

English duo fronted by vocal dynamo Annie Lennox and guitarist Dave Stewart. The other three 2022 inductees are Duran Duran, Eminem and Lionel Richie.

The 2022 honorees will be celebrated at the Nov. 5 induction ceremony and concert at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Parton won induction even though she announced on March 14 that she was withdrawing her name from the ballot. Despite feeling “extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated,” she wrote that she didn’t feel she earned that right.

“I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully

bow out,” she wrote.

The hall responded a few days later by declining to remove her from the ballot.

On Friday, which was the deadline for ballots to be submitted, Parton announced she would accept the honor after all, should she be inducted.

Veteran heavy-metal favorites Judas Priest — whose lead singer, Rob Halford, has lived in San Diego on and off for decades — will this year be honored with the Musical Excellence Award. This award comes after the band was nominated for the third time this year without earning enough votes for induction.

Jimmy Jam and Terry

Lewis, the producers and songwriters who got their start performing with Prince, will also receive the Musical Excellence Award.

Harry Belafonte, who turned 95 on March 1, will receive the Early Influence Award. So will pioneering folk-blues artist Elizabeth Cotten, the creator of a unique finger-picking guitar style known as “Cotten picking.” She died in 1987.