[ClearCase_guy]

They should have made a Pop Music Hall of Fame as well as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Notable musicians could go into one or the other. Perhaps in rare circumstances, someone could be in both.

Madonna belongs in a Pop Music Hall of Fame. Rock and Roll is something else.

[riverdawg]

“Rock and Roll is something else.”

And, whatever it is, Leonard Cohen didn’t do it either.

[Shade2]

“Rock and Roll” is actually different from “Rock”. All of the music forms included in the Hall of Fame were either influenced by Rock and Roll or influenced Rock and Roll.

[weegee]

The industry continues now, as it always has, to kill rock and roll.

It was rushed off the stage in the late 1950s. And then again when the Beatles were told the guitar group sound was “out”. And again when pinko folkies got p*ssed at Dylan for playing an electric guitar. And again when “country” music infected the supposed rock and roll world after Woodstock. And again when disco and corporate rock rose in the 1970s. And again. And again.

Madonna claims that she had the Stooges play “as a protest” for their being excluded. But Ron Ashton is observant enough to know that it gets her press too.