Byrds, Ike & Tina Named to Rock Hall of Fame : Pop Music: The Impressions, John Lee Hooker and Wilson Pickett are among the newest members of rock ‘n’ roll royalty.

The Byrds, the Los Angeles band whose 1965 recording of “Mr. Tambourine Man” ignited the folk-rock movement, and Ike & Tina Turner, whose soul revue was among the most dynamic live acts ever in pop, are among the seven new inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Other performers whose election was announced Monday at a press conference in Cleveland are R&B; singer LaVern Baker, blues singer-guitarist John Lee Hooker, soul vocal group the Impressions, soul vocalist Wilson Pickett and the late blues singer-songwriter Jimmy Reed.

Blues legend Howlin’ Wolf was chosen as this year’s honoree in the early influence/forefather category, while record producers Dave Bartholomew and Ralph Bass were named in the non-performing division. The artists will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at a dinner Jan. 16 in New York.

Roger McGuinn, the leader of the Byrds, said in Los Angeles that he was thrilled by the selection and expects all five members of the original group to be on hand to accept the award.

Ike Turner, who began serving a four-year prison sentence for a misdemeanor drug offense in February in the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, could not be reached for comment. Carol Pinkins, associate warden at the facility, said that she doubted if Turner would be allowed to attend the dinner.

Impressions leader Curtis Mayfield, who has been hospitalized in Georgia since a freak accident at an outdoor concert in August left him paralyzed from the neck down, hopes to join the Impressions at the event.

“We’re taking it day by day,” Mayfield said Monday. “I’m very moved that the Impressions will be honored.”

Recording artists become eligible for the Hall of Fame 25 years after their first recording and are chosen on the basis of contributions to or influence on the course of rock ‘n’ roll. More than 300 performers, producers, writers, record executives and broadcasters voted in this year’s selection process.

This year’s inductees were elected from a group of 15 nominees that also included such artists as Johnny Cash, Frankie Lymon, Gene Vincent and the Yardbirds.

The 10 new musicians and producers brings to 68 the number of performers, non-performers and forefathers voted into the Hall of Fame since the nonprofit organization was conceived in 1985 by Atlantic Records founder and chairman Ahmet Ertegun.

Suzan Evans, executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, predicted that construction on the foundation’s still unrealized museum will begin next fall. About $43 million has been raised to build the facility.

The original Tower City site for the building was scrapped last summer in favor of a new lake-front plot in downtown Cleveland. Architect I.M. Pei, who designed the new wing of the National Gallery in Washington and the new entrance and addition to the Louvre in Paris, is expanding his original design to accommodate the new location.