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'You're So Vain': You Probably Think This Museum's About You |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARTS WATCH |
| Author: Stephen Henkin |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,062 Words, 6,463 Characters |
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Trying to preserve a select group of artists at the newly opened Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is like trying to plug up a popcorn popper in full heat--eventually you are going to end up with kernels all over the kitchen. It's not enough to have Jim Morrison's Cub Scout uniform; Jimi Hendrix's handwritten lyric manuscript to "Purple Haze"; Bo Diddley's first, boxlike electric guitar; or even the Supremes' "Butterfly" gowns, worn during a 1968 TV special, on display in the associated museum underneath the hall. You've got to enthrone the hit makers as well.
After eleven years of nominations, just how is it decided who gets ped...
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...um dedicated to the living heritage of rock and roll music," but the institution may actually be ushering in the genre's premature death. Attempting to set fixed standards of "what's hot and what's not" in the development of such a fluid medium as music may grant rock's egos their highly promoted day in the sun, but a very long anonymous night might lie ahead. Can Milli Vanilli be far behind?
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