Authors of the site about modern culture Vulture compiled their own ranking of performers included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The list's compilers ranked all 214 performers and musicians in "Best to Worst" order and tried to explain their own decisions. The list turned out to be very subjective.
So, the authors recently placed the last, 214th place in the Hall of Fame Bon Jovi, noting that the group has not written a single hit in its entire history, and in general is engaged in posing as a rock band. Apparently, the compilers of the rating live in a parallel universe in which the songs “Livin’ On a Prayer”, “You Give Love A Bad Name” and “It’s My Life” do not exist.
Right in front of Bon Jovi Queen, which the authors considered "the most overrated band in the history of music." Vulture claims that the band's fame in the US was fleeting, and all of its modern success and legendary status is due to the untimely death of Freddie Mercury. The judgment is controversial, nothing less.
group KISS, which ended up in 209th place in the ranking, the authors called it a team with 2.5 songs and decades of aimless activity. Despite the opinion of Vulture, years of aimless activity do not prevent Gene Simmons from being a completely successful businessman and a collection of his own unreleased compositions in a real safe.
Bon Jovi performs during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
Top line 205 is allocated Red Hot Chili Peppers, which the authors feel disdain for the way the once-hooligan group, in their opinion, has actively changed its image and become sterile for performing at the Super Bowl.
Swedish quartet ABBA the authors placed it at line 204, noting that the inclusion of the group was necessary only to warm up the audience at the time the musical appeared "Mamma Mia" Deep Purple the compilers of the rating placed them in 202nd place, calling the group lumpen rockers from the 1970s.
Green Day, whose leader Billie Joe Armstrong recently held a charity sale of all sorts of band equipment, Vulture ranked 193rd. According to the compilers, the group’s success was visible in the post-grunge wave, but now the trio is simply boring to listen to.
178th place in the rating went to Alice Cooper, whom the authors consider a successful showman with one compelling album in the 1970s and several strong pop-rock hits. Metallica the publication placed it on line 176, noting their achievements in the field of heavy music on early stages creativity and complete toothlessness of the team now. According to Vulture, bass player Robert Trujillo has been in the band for as long as Metallica hasn't released anything worthwhile.
At number 155 on their subjective chart, Vulture placed Aerosmith. According to the authors, in the mid-1980s Desmond Child And Diane Warren wrote a lot of fake and weak rock songs for the group, which made the group truly popular. The compilers believe that the entire legacy of Aerosmith is “Dream On”, “Sweet Emotion”, association with Run-D.M.C. and the already mentioned Child songs.
Other performers in the second hundred include:
- Genesis in 173rd place;
- Guns N' Roses at number 170;
- Van Halen at 168;
- Earth, Wind & Fire at 153 positions;
- Nina Simone in 148th place;
- Black Sabbath in 144th place;
- The Bee Gees are at number 141;
- Yes at 140 position;
- Pearl Jam at 133rd;
- Eagles on line 132;
- Eric Clapton at 131;
- Dire Straits at 127;
- Leonard Cohen in 112th place;
- Lynyrd Skynyrd at 103rd position.
The first hundred included:
- The Police in 96th place;
- The Cars is ranked 95th;
- AC/DC in 94th place;
- Peter Gabriel in 93rd position;
- Tupac Shakur in 84th place;
- Madonna in 83rd place;
- The Jackson 5 on line 78;
- ZZ Top on the 77th line of the top;
- Paul McCartney in 76th place;
- B.B. King at 68th position;
- Elton John at number 59;
- Michael Jackson in 58th place;
- U2 in 56th place;
- The Who at line 49;
- John Lennon in 43rd place;
- The Stooges are in 41st place;
- The Velvet Underground at 37th place;
- Pink Floyd in 34th place;
- Stevie Wonder at 28th position;
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience on line 22;
- David Bowie is in 21st place.
The Clash the authors placed it on the 17th line of the chart, calling the group intelligent and smart, with big amount songs and a very short career. On the 15th line were placed The Rolling Stones, who, despite any experiments, always remained a strong group.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The authors put it in 14th place Sex Pistols, without really explaining his choice. According to Vulture, the Sex Pistols' work remains tough and uncompromising. 13th place in the ranking went to Led Zeppelin whose appearance the compilers called a turning point in music. The authors of the rating believe that Led Zeppelin's lyrics are the most adequate among all hard rock bands and do not cause embarrassment.
Top the list best groups in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame according to Vulture - Chuck Berry, The Beatles And Bob Dylan. According to the compilers, Dylan was the first to build creativity around strong lyrics, which no one had done before, The Beatles simply changed everything, and Chuck Berry invented rock music and is simply one of the most important representatives popular music of the 20th century.
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1. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Michael Bruce, Neil Smith, Ellis Cooper, Rob Zombie and Denis Dunaway pose with a snake in the conference room at the 26th annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf Hotel. Astoria" in New York on March 14. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
2. Newly elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ellis Cooper. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
3. Tom Waits performing at the ceremony. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
4. Newly elected to the Hall of Fame Darlene Love and singer Bette Midler on stage at the ceremony in New York. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
5. Ellis Cooper with python. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
6. Musician John Densmore of the group "Doors" speaks at the ceremony of induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
7. Speech by Tom Waits. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
8. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jack Holtzman. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
9. Musician Paul Simon gives an acceptance speech. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
10. Musician Lloyd Price in the conference room at the 26th annual induction ceremony of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
11. Hall of Fame Rookie Leon Russell accepts his award. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
12. Musician John Legend at a press conference. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
13. Rob Zombie gives a speech on stage at the ceremony. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
14. Newly inducted into the Hall of Fame, Leon Russell, performs the song. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
15. Dr. John with an honorary award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
16. Musician John Mayer on stage. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
17. Dr. John performs one of his compositions. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
18. Elton John (left) and Leon Russell backstage at the ceremony. (AP Photo)
19. Performance by singer Judy Collins. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
What is this room really like? You immediately imagine a white marble cathedral, golden candelabra along the carpet, bronze cannons with cannonballs around the iconostasis and coffins, coffins, coffins with rock stars everywhere!
Of course, it would be great, the best Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the world! However, in reality this is a more modest establishment - a modern stylish architectural structure on the shore of a lake in Cleveland, Ohio. It was created in 1983-1986 thanks to the joint diligence of several show business sharks, publishers and music journalists. The hall is actually not even a hall, but a seven-story music museum with concert venue, the very ceremony of initiation and glorification of heroes takes place once a year in the coronation hall on the third floor.
Why Cleveland? This Long story. For Americans, Cleveland, on the one hand, is a periphery at the end of the Earth, on the other, a place that has old intimate relationships with rock and roll (in in a good way) relationship. Something like Ufa in Russia - an incomprehensible city, it is unclear where, but Zemfira and Shevchuk were born there, and this is wow by our standards.
In 1986, the museum's organizing committee (something like self-styled rock academics) held its first meeting and decided to admit the first apostles to the Hall of Fame. These were rock and roll and blues musicians led by James Brown and Chuck Berry. Since then, up to seven artists have been added to the Hall of Fame every year. Some are accepted several times if they become famous both as part of a group and as a solo artist.
The museum helped not only rock and roll, but Cleveland itself: interest in the ceremony is constantly growing, millions of people watch broadcasts from the Hall and even come in person, making a serious contribution to the industry of the local tourist cluster.
It would be nice to organize something like this in Russia, too, in Ufa or Vasyuki, but there is a fear that the lofty plan will eventually turn into another “Invasion.”
In addition to artists, songs are also inducted into the Hall of Fame. At first there were 500 of them, but over the years the honorary playlist has grown. Most of all singles are from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley, which is unlikely to surprise you.
Academicians noticeably gravitate towards the good old classics of the genre and are in no hurry to admit alternative musicians, electronic engineers, rappers and metalheads into the hall. Even harmless Depeche Mode was nominated several times, but in the end did not achieve a passing score in the jury's vote. Of the deviant artists, The Velvet Underground, Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Patti Smith, Metallica, Run-DMC, The Stooges, Tom Waits, Beastie Boys, miraculously included in the Hall of Fame Red Hot Chili Peppers, Public Enemy, Nirvana, Green Day, N.W.A, Pearl Jam and Tupac Shakur.
The Museum and Hall of Fame building is located in Cleveland, Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie, and was designed by architect Yu Ming Pei. Several cities claimed to become the birthplace of the museum; in addition to Cleveland, these were New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, Memphis and Chicago. Members of the organizing committee visited each of these cities, where they were greeted with honors and concerts. Although New York was initially the main contender, Cleveland based its claim on the fact that WMMS, one of the most influential American rock radio stations, began its work here, and also on the fact that it was in this city that DJ Alan Freed, who is credited with invention of the term "rock and roll" in the early 1950s.
The idea to create such a museum appeared in 1983. The idea to create an organization to "pay tribute to the people who created the most popular music of our time" belonged to music producer and founder record company Atlantic Records to Ahmet Ertegun. He was joined by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, manager Jon Landau, sound engineers Seymour Stein and Bob Krasnow, and lawyers Allen Grubman and Susan Evans. In 1986, before the future location of the museum was decided, the first induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame took place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. The top ten members included Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, as well as the late Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley. They were accompanied by DJ Alan Freed and producer Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis to the world, as well as bluesman Robert Johnson, country singer Jimmie Rodgers, and jazz musician Jimmy Yancey.
In 1987, the famous Chinese architect Yu Ming Pei was asked to design the Museum building. Pei had a lot to learn along the way. “I didn’t know anything about rock and roll,” he admitted. With the eminent master, who has created many famous buildings, including, for example, the glass pyramid of the Louvre, the authors of the idea held a “musical educational program” and took him to concerts. "We've heard a lot different music, and I finally caught the essence: rock and roll is, first of all, energy,” Pei came to this conclusion.
In 1993, the foundation of the museum was laid. In addition to the architect, the ceremony was attended by the museum's founders, including its chairman Ahmet Ertegun (the museum's main exhibition hall will be named after him), Susan Evans and Jann Wenner, as well as Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry and other musicians. On this day, Townshend donated his Gibson J-200 guitar, which The Who guitarist used during the recording of the legendary album Tommy (1969), to the museum.
A year later, when the building was completed, Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the first inductees into the Hall of Fame, performed with local Cleveland musicians in front of a crowd of spectators and the museum's founders.
The Rock and Roll Museum and Hall of Fame opened on September 1, 1995. On this day, a cheerful parade passed through the streets of Cleveland, which ended with a ceremonial cutting of the ribbon at the entrance to the museum. The Museum and Hall of Fame opened to visitors on September 2. The day started with a presentation Exhibition hall named after Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of the museum, and it ended big concert at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. The musical performance was attended by Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Bruce Springsteen and other world-famous stars.
How to get into the Hall of Fame
Performers are inducted into the Hall of Fame at an annual ceremony during which they typically perform a concert. For a long time The induction ceremony was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, where the first nominees were selected, but in 2009 they decided to change tradition and move the ceremony directly to Cleveland. Musicians can only get into the Hall of Fame 25 years after the release of their first single (for example, John Lennon's first single was released in 1969, and he was nominated exactly 25 years later, in 1994). A selection committee made up of music historians selects nominees for 4 categories: performers (singers, bands and instrumentalists); non-performers (songwriters, composers, producers, DJs, music journalists, etc.); classics (forerunners of rock and roll); session musicians. Then a vote takes place, in which approximately 1000 experts take part. These are the people different professions, one way or another related to music and music industry. To be nominated you must receive a minimum of 50% of the votes. Each year, approximately 5-7 new members are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Fun fact: the same person can be inducted into the Hall of Fame more than once, both as a member of a band and in recognition of that person. solo creativity. Among the performers included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice are such names as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Paul Simon and others, but only Eric Clapton achieved this achievement three times: in 1992 He was nominated as a member of the Yardbirds in 1993, as a member of Cream in 1993, and as a solo artist in 2000.
