New York, Mar 16 : After years of being nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, the Stooges have finally been inducted.

The band was finally honoured at an event held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday night and telecast on the Fuse cable channel.

"After the seventh time" the Stooges were nominated, said the band's guitarist, James Williamson, in his acceptance speech.

"We were beginning to think we would have to take pride in not getting in," the New York Daily News quoted him as saying.

This was a year of belated admissions for the Hall of Fame-besides the Stooges, the hall's latest performing members are the Swedish pop group ABBA, the reggae songwriter Jimmy Cliff and two English bands, Genesis and the Hollies.

All but ABBA, which came together in the early 1970's, have careers dating back to the 1960s.