If you're tired of hearing about port deals and newspaper chain breakups, read what happens when some really classy people get together for a modest celebration:
Between an ugly feud among Blondie members spilling over onstage and a rancorous letter from the absent Sex Pistols, the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class did not enter quietly on Monday.
The animosity even made Ozzy Osbourne, inducted with Black Sabbath, seem sedate.
I don't think one person in 10,000 really cares about this stuff. Not only has rock declined into weaker and weaker retreads of better stuff (the possible permutations of three chords weren't limitless after all, it turns out). Now, they're down to the second- and third-tier acts for hall-of-fame inductees. The only exception was Miles Davis. A lot of people say the master doesn't belong in the hall -- but his jazz-rock fusion was 100 times better that anything Blondie could ever do, let alone the pathetic one-album freaks the Sex Pistols.
Oh, OK, Black Sabbath belongs, too.
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I remember hearing about quite an uproar when it was suggested that Herb Alpert be inducted into R&R Hall of Fame...seems an easy choice to me. Regardless his "less-than-rocking" musical style, he DID father A&M records...that should be worth SOMETHING!
That list reads like my tape collection circa 1990.