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Mariah Carey has been eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for almost a decade, but even after being nominated for the first time this past year, she still hasn’t received the recognition. Someone else, though, has: her lawyer.

That’s right — lawyer, Allen Grubman, was inducted into the Rock Hall in 2022 in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category for his history of representing artists like Carey, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Elton John, and, until this past July, P Diddy. Additionally, he also happens to be one of the Rock Hall’s founders.

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Carey spoke about the circumstance in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, in which she was asked if she had any thoughts on being nominated for the first time. She replied “My thoughts are: I didn’t get in,” and continued: “Everybody was calling me going, ‘I think you’re getting in!

Established in 1983 by Atlantic Records chairman Ahmet Ertegun, along with a group of music business luminaries including Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner and fellow record exec Seymour Stein, the Rock Hall concept was simple: to showcase some of the greatest rock and roll acts that would eventually be featured in a museum. The performers were chosen by a nominating committee made up of journalists, producers, and others in the music biz, and in recent years fans have been given the chance to vote on the performers that become finalists. Acts become eligible 25 years after the release of their first record, and are judged based on the “influence and significance of the artists’ contributions to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll.” You can see the full list of previous inductees here.

Inevitably, when only six to eight performers are selected each year, many acts are left out, which is...

The Rolling Stones‘ self-titled debut album came out on April 16, 1964. Sixty years later, it’s still great rock ‘n’ roll! More than that, there’s a lot of interesting facts behind this impactful album. It also boasts one awesome collaboration.

The Rolling Stones barely wrote any of the album

The cornerstone of The Rolling Stones is the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Only one song from The Rolling Stones was credited to Jagger and Richards: “Tell Me (You’re Coming Back).” Most of the album is composed of covers, including songs by rock ‘n’ roll icons like Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry, although two tracks are credited to “Nanker Phelge,” a collective pseudonym for the track.

While Jagger and Richards only penned one track for the record what a track it is. “Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)” is an impressive ballad that shows...

Courtney Love shared some hot takes on other women in music during a new interview.

The 59-year-old musician is gearing up to host a BBC radio show that “reflects on the women in music who have shaped her journey, her sound and what she calls her next chapter.”

However, she isn’t a fan of all female artists, a fact that she made clear when sharing her opinions on the likes of Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Madonna and Lana Del Rey.

Keep reading to find out more…

Speaking to The Standard, Courtney said that she liked see “so many successful women in the music industry.” However, she added that so many of them were “becoming a chiche.”

“Now, every successful woman is cloned, so there is just too much music. They’re all the same. If you play something on Spotify, you get bombarded with a lot of stuff that’s exactly the same.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the 15 nominees for its class of 2024 Saturday morning, with two-thirds of those nominated being up for election for the first time, ranging from pop superstars Mariah Carey and Cher to classic rockers Ozzy Osbourne and Peter Frampton to the late singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor.

Also getting first-time nominations are Foreigner, Kool & the Gang, Lenny Kravitz, Oasis and Sade.

The other nominees are returning to the ballot after previously having been put up for the honor: Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews Band, Eric B. and Rakim, Jane’s Addiction and A Tribe Called Quest.

The complete list of 2024 nominees, in alphabetical order:

· Mary J. Blige

· Mariah Carey

· Cher

· Dave Matthews Band

· Eric B. & Rakim

· Foreigner

· Peter Frampton

· Jane’s Addiction

· Kool & the Gang

· Lenny Kravitz

· Oasis

· Sinead O’Connor

· Ozzy Osbourne

· Sade

· A Tribe Called Quest

Cher recently made news by declaring that she...

Cher is probably not the first name that comes to mind when you think of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – and if she says so, it’ll stay that way. Despite having a dynamic career and officially becoming the first woman to ever have #1 singles over the course of seven decades, Cher will forever distance herself from the foundation.

Now 77, Cher recently told Kelly Clarkson that while she may not be the only artist to have achieved such a feat, she thinks hers is more impressive because “it took four of them to be one of me,” citing The Rolling Stones. Then she added, “And I’m not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!” The Stones, for reference, were inducted in 1989, the same year Cher released one of her biggest hits, “If I Could Turn Back Time”.

While the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has become something of a joke,...

Lenny Kravitz is opening up about his past.

The 59-year-old “Fly Away” superstar spoke out in an interview for Esquire, out now.

During the conversation, Lenny talked about being taken seriously by rock critics and his treatment by Black entertainment outlets, Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner‘s controversial comments, an unwanted sexual experience, and much more.

Click through to find out what Lenny Kravitz had to say…...

Bob Dylan went public with his support for disgraced Rolling Stone founder and ex-editor Jann Wenner last night, telling an audience at New York City’s Beacon Theatre that he wants Wenner “back in” the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Wenner, a founder and longtime major force behind the Hall of Fame, was voted off the Board of Directors in September after his comments in a New York Times interview were widely deemed racist and sexist.

During last night’s show at the Upper West Side venue, Dylan gave a shout-out to Wenner before expressing his thoughts on the ouster.

“All right, l’d like to say hello to Jann Wenner, who’s in the house,” Dylan said (listen to a recorded clip posted on the Dylan.FM Podcast below). “Jann Wenner, surely everybody’s heard of him. Anyway, he just got booted out of the Rock ‘n’ Roll...

Bob Dylan expressed his support for disgraced Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner during a concert in New York City on Thursday night.

Dylan rarely speaks during his shows, but he felt compelled to shout out Wenner towards the end of his gig at the Beacon Theatre. “All right, l’d like to say hello to Jann Wenner, who’s in the house. Jann Wenner, surely everybody’s heard of him,” Dylan said.

“Anyway, he just got booted out of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame – and we don’t think that’s right. We’re trying to get him back in.”

In September, Wann was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors after making derogatory remarks about Black and female artists. Specifically, Wenner came under fire for comments he made to the New York Times in an interview promoting his new book The Masters.

The New York Times is planning a major new interview franchise, one that will live across its audio podcast division and within The New York Times Magazine.

The new franchise will be released as a weekly podcast, and will also be published as a Q&a in the Magazine, it will be co-hosted by David Marchese, who writes the Magazine’s “Talk” interview column, and Lulu Garcia-Navarro, the veteran NPR journalist who joined the Times to host its First Person interview series.

The new interview series will launch in 2024, with a name still to be determined, though in a note to staff Thursday, Times audio chief Sam Dolnick, Magazine editor Jake Silverstein and director of audio Paula Szchuman said that it will “build on the success of David’s Talk column, which has been one of the most popular features on our site over the past five years.”

Marchese has...

Bernie Taupin received a Musical Excellence Award at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame cofounder Jann Wenner received a dig for his imprudent remarks on why certain people were included in his recent book, The Masters.

While promoting his interview-collection book in September, Wenner said that its lack of diversity in interview selections was because female musicians were never “articulate enough on this intellectual level,” and that Black artists “just didn’t articulate at that level.” The resultant outrage saw Wenner apologize, but he was subsequently dropped from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s board of directors.

On Friday, after Elton John gave a speech detailing his relationship with Taupin, his longtime collaborator, Taupin took to the stage. After listing his influences, talking about his work with Elton John, and...

Kate Bush, Missy Elliott, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, The Spinners and the late George Michael were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Friday.

The 38th annual ceremony took place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn with performances that spanned genres and paired different generations of stars, including an opening act with Crow and Olivia Rodrigo singing “If It Makes You Happy,” a pairing of honoree Chaka Khan and Common, as well as with H.E.R. and Sia, and a medley of Nelson’s songs featuring the 90-year-old performer alongside Dave Matthews, Chris Stapleton and Crow. Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page made a surprise appearance to perform “Rumble” in honor of inductee Link Wray.

The evening concluded with an all-out performance from Elliott, decked out in a sequined gold jumpsuit, surrounded by backup dancers and running through hits such as “Lose Control” and “Get Ur Freak On.

When Elton John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1994, he called Bernie Taupin onstage and handed him the award. “Without him, the journey would not have been possible,” John said at the time. “I kind of feel like cheating standing here accepting this. Without Bernie Taupin, there wouldn’t have been any Elton John at all. And I would like him to come up and give this to him.”

Three decades later, John took the stage at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center...

The reclusive Kate Bush will not be in attendance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Bush, who hasn’t toured since 1979, is set for induction along with Missy Elliott, Sheryl Crow, the late George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and the Spinners. The show will air live and on-demand on Disney+ starting at 5 p.m. Pacific time/8 p.m. Eastern. Audio can be streamed live through Apple Music 1.

In a post to her website, Bush indicated she was honored to be inducted, but gave no reason for her absence. There has long been speculation that she doesn’t like to fly and is mildly agoraphobic.

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Last year saw something of a career renaissance for Bush, whose 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” was revived...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has partnered with the Black Music Action Coalition to provide mentorship and financial support to emerging Black and female artists and music professionals.

The Bmac Music Maker Guaranteed Income and Mentorship Program — like a similar program Bmac started with the Academy of Country Music launched earlier this year — will provide $1,000 a month in aid to those selected, as well as provide them with access to those in the music industry who can help advise them on their careers.

“The year of economic support...

Olivia Rodrigo has been added to the performance line-up of this Friday’s 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and she’ll reportedly be appearing on stage with inductee Sheryl Crow.

The Rock Hall announced Rodrigo’s appearance today, posting on Instagram that the Guts singer “will perform with one of her heroes” at the induction ceremony this Friday. The mystery guest didn’t stay a mystery for long though: In an interview with The New York Times, John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, apparently couldn’t contain himself, revealing that Rodrigo will perform with Crow.

“Olivia Rodrigo is coming in this year,” Sykes said in the interview. “Last year she got up and sang ‘You’re So Vain’ by Carly Simon. She’s going to play with Sheryl Crow this year. It’s this mutual admiration that connects the past with the present.

The music of The Rolling Stones has always been filled with controversy and innuendoes. However, some of their most iconic songs contain lyrics that are massive red flags. One, in particular, stands out: “Under My Thumb” continues to spark debate among fans.

The Rolling Stones ‘Under My Thumb’ lyrics are about controlling a partner

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the forerunners of the legacy of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Many of their lyrics are littered with sexual innuendoes.

However, one song, in particular, takes a theme of control too far. “Under My Thumb” features lyrics that are all about controlling a partner.

“It’s down to me, yes it is/The way she does just what she’s told/Down to me, the change has come/She’s under my thumb,” Mick Jagger sings. He also refers to the...

Please Allow This Asian American music writer to articulate this at the level it deserves: Egregious racism and misogyny have a long history in rock & roll — from those on the industry side who have appropriated Black artists’ work to those at the top of the publications who dictated what has been featured. The gatekeepers have always been a boys’ club — specifically a white boys’ club.

Among the earliest influential U.S. music magazines, Rolling Stone was helmed by Jann Wenner from 1967 to 2018; Barry Kramer launched Creem in 1969 and published it...

A version of this response appeared on the Black Rock Coalition’s website.

When Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner made offensive comments in The New York Times about women and Black artists, the Black Rock Coalition, which has battled stereotypes and musical categorizations about what rock is “supposed to be” since 1985, felt obligated to speak out and condemn his misogynistic and racist statements. While we were among many organizations and individuals to call out Wenner, he also had a number of supporters, citing his contributions to popular culture and to the world of music journalism.

It’S The Broken Record that continues to play despite repeated forewarnings: An influential white man says something racist and sexist, instant public backlash ensues, and swift consequence occurs.

As a Black queer millennial journalist, Jann Wenner’s offensive remarks to The New York Times weren’t shocking to me at all. His gatekeeping has for decades seeped into my understanding of pop culture. Growing up in the late-2000s and early-2010s, I can remember the covers having only a few Black people — namely former President Barack Obama, with sprinkles of Jay-Z,...

On October 19, The Rolling Stones launched their new album, Hackney Diamonds, at a secret New York City nightclub with Lady Gaga.

Elvis Costello and Diana Krall were seen on the balcony with the closest view of the stage.

Many other stars were present, including Daniel Craig, Jimmy Fallon, Rachel Weisz, Keegan Michael Key, Mary Kate Olson, Trevor Noah, along with Rolling Stone editor Gus Wenner and his father, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner.

Mick Jagger, 80, still maintained his youthful exuberance for his fans, with no decline in energy despite his age.

Six hundred fans got to hear the band power through old favorites, with songs off the new album interspersed throughout. Gaga joined the band on stage to perform their new track, “Sweet Sounds of Heaven.” Clad in platform heels and a sparkly black-and-maroon bell bottom jumpsuit, Gaga did a high counterpart and response to Jagger’s lead vocals.

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Spike Lee is among those upset about Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner’s recent controversial choice to leave women and Black musicians out of his new book The Masters.

During a wide-ranging interview with Lee at the 2023 New Yorker Festival on Saturday, New Yorker editor David Remnick recalled how a few weeks ago the pair were talking and Lee was “exercised” about the Wenner controversy.

“It is just emblematic of how often Black people, brown people, colored people are overlooked for their genius, for their skill, hard work,” Lee said during the New Yorker Festival talk.

When reminded that Wenner had explained these omissions, in an interview with The New York Times that seemed to kickstart the backlash against the Rolling Stone co-founder, by saying that no female or Black artists were “articulate” enough to be included, Lee suggested that may have been particularly what he was irritated about.

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Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, Chris Stapleton, and H.E.R. are just a few artists set to perform at the upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. New inductees Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, and Chaka Khan will also take the mic during the show’s 2023 iteration, which will be streaming live on Disney+ for the first time on November 3rd.

“This year’s incredible group of Inductees reflects the diverse artists and sounds that define rock ‘n’ roll,” Rock Hall Chairman John Sykes said in a press release. “We are honored that this November’s Induction Ceremony in New York will coincide with two milestones in music culture; the 90th birthday of Willie Nelson and the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop.”

Notably, this will be the first Rock Hall Induction Ceremony since its founder Jann Wenner’s definitively undiversified taste got him booted...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has a new television home. The 2023 ceremony, which has aired on HBO since 1995, is moving to Disney+ and ABC as part of a new deal.

It will broadcast live coast-to-coast on Disney+ on Friday, November 3. Disney-owned linear network ABC will air a special with performances on January 1.

It marks the latest livestream for Disney+, which aired Elton John’s farewell concert from Dodger Stadium show earlier this year.

The move follows some criticism of the event after Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine and co-founder of the Rock Hall, was ousted from the foundation after an interview that was considered racist and misogynistic by many. He later apologized.

This year’s inductees are Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners with other awards for DJ Kool Herc, Link Wray, Chaka Khan, Al Kooper,...

Right-wing rocker Ted Nugent has put Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner on blast for the latter’s “racist and misogynistic” comments that got him ousted from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame board of directors.

In a recent interview with The New York Times regarding his new book The Masters — collecting interviews with many legendary rock stars — Wenner was asked why he didn’t include any interviews with female or Black artists, to which he replied: “Insofar as the women, none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

He continued, “I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”

Nugent, who once called Black Lives Matter a “terrorist organization,” has had a bone to pick with Wenner for years. The guitarist believes...

The Black Music Action Coalition called Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s exclusion of Black and female musicians from his upcoming book The Masters “an offensive and absurd erasure.”

The organization — which was founded in the summer of 2020 amidst the uprising against police brutality and wider reckonings with systemic racism and injustice — issued the statement after Wenner was widely criticized for comments about Black and female artists in an interview with The New York Times. In the interview, Werner said Black and female musicians “didn’t articulate at the level...

The governing body for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame removed Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner from its board of directors on Saturday.

“Jann Wenner has been removed from the board of directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” a representative for the organization said in a statement.

This comes a day after Wenner’s comments in a New York Times interview last Friday, where he spoke about his new book, The Masters: Conversations with Dylan, Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen.

When asked about Wenner’s decision to not include women and black artists in the book, he stated, “The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them. Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

“Stevie Wonder, genius, right? I suppose when you use...

Jann Wenner, who co-founded Rolling Stone magazine and also was a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making comments that were seen as disparaging toward Black and female musicians. He apologized within hours.

“Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the hall said Saturday, a day after Wenner’s comments were published in a New York Times interview.

Wenner created a firestorm doing publicity for his new book “The Masters,” which features interviews with musicians Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend and U2’s Bono — all white and male.

Read More: ‘Rolling Stone’ Founder Jann Wenner Says He Only Interviewed White Men For New Book On Rock Legends Because Women And Black Artists Aren’t ‘Articulate Enough’

Asked why...

Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner has offered his apologies after saying that black and female musicians ‘aren’t articulate enough’ to be added to his book. The apology came on September 15 night, a few hours after the music writer was removed from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s board of directors.

In an interview with The New York Times — which was published online the night before, to promote his new book, ‘The Masters’; Wenner said he didn’t include interviews with Black and female musicians in his book because they aren’t “articulate” enough.

Following this, he issued a ‘wholehearted’ apology for his comments, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“In my interview with The New York Times, I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists and I apologise wholeheartedly for those remarks,” he said in a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter.

Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner has offered his apologies after saying that black and female musicians ‘aren’t articulate enough’ to be added to his book. The apology came on September 15 night, a few hours after the music writer was removed from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s board of directors.

In an interview with The New York Times — which was published online the night before, to promote his new book, ‘The Masters’; Wenner said he didn’t include interviews with Black and female musicians in his book because they aren’t “articulate” enough.

Following this, he issued a ‘wholehearted’ apology for his comments, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“In my interview with The New York Times, I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists and I apologise wholeheartedly for those remarks,” he said in a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter.

Just hours after he was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner issued an apology for saying he chose interviews with a pantheon of white male musicians who he dubs the “philosophers of rock” because Black and female musicians were not “articulate at that level.”

Late Saturday, the publisher of Wenner’s book Masters issued the following statement from Wenner: “In my interview with The New York Times I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks.”

He continued, “The Masters is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ’n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators...

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has been ousted from his position on the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. The news was announced on Saturday, following an interview with The New York Times, where he made widely criticized comments about Black and female musicians, alongside revealing other questionable editorial decisions.

Wenner is promoting his book, The Masters, which features interviews with influential artists, such as Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, John Lennon, and Bruce Springsteen — none of the artists featured are female or non-white.

Controversial interview remarks by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner have led to his removal from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors.

The board administrates the selections for the Hall of Fame museum. The vote to remove Wenner had just one dissenter, reportedly Bruce Springsteen manager Jon Landau.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s goal is “to promote Roll & Roll music as a cultural aspect of modern life and society.” It is separate from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Wenner is a cofounder of the Foundation, which was started in 1983.

Wenner was removed from the board after a New York Times interview regarding his new book, The Masters, which features interviews with seven notable figures in rock music. The lineup includes Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Jerry Garcia and Pete Townsend.

Asked by the New York...

Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors after making derogatory remarks about Black and female artists.

TMZ reports that a vote was taken to remove Wenner from the Hall of Fame’s board. Bruce Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau, was reportedly the lone dissenting vote.

Wenner is a co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and served as its chairman until 2020.

Earlier this week, Wenner came under fire following comments he made to the New York Times in an interview promoting his new book The Masters. Asked why only white male musicians were featured in the book, Wenner justified the lack of diversity by arguing that Black and female artists “just didn’t articulate at the level” of their white male peers.

“Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,...

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has issued an apology following controversial comments he made about Black and female musicians being not “articulate” enough to be included in his new book.

The apology came Saturday night, a few hours after the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced he was being removed from his position on the board of directors.

In an interview with The New York Times — which was published online Friday, to promote his new book, The Masters — Wenner said he didn’t include interviews with Black and female musicians in his book because they aren’t “articulate” enough. On Saturday, he said he apologized “wholeheartedly” for his comments.

“In my interview with The New York Times, I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks,” he said in a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jann Wenner, the publishing icon who co-founded Rolling Stone and led the magazine for five decades, has a new book out this month titled The Masters. In the Little Brown and Company release, Wenner revisits lengthy interviews conducted during his Rolling Stone days with a selection of rock titans including Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Townshend.

To promote The Masters, Wenner sat for a lengthy interview of his own with The New York Times’ David Marchese (a onetime online editor at Rolling Stone), during which he opened up on how he zeroed in on those particular rockers for the book, many of whom are or were close friends. The book does not include any interviews with Black or female musicians, and Wenner’s explanation as to why is now catching heat online.

Marchese asked Wenner to further explain the selection process, which...

The co-founder of Rolling Stone is facing some major blowback.

In a lengthy new interview with The New York Times journalist David Marchese, magazine magnate Jann Wenner responded to concerns over representation in his recent book.

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The Masters, publishing later this month, features interviews Wenner conducted during his tenure at Rolling Stone with seven rock legends like Mick Jagger, Bono, Bob Dylan and more.

Notably, though, all of the interviews are with white men.

“In the introduction, you acknowledge that performers of color and women performers are just not in your zeitgeist. Which to my mind is not plausible for Jann Wenner. Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, the list keeps going — not in your zeitgeist?” Marchese asked.

“When I was referring to the zeitgeist, I was referring to Black performers, not to the female performers,...

To say Jann Wenner hasn’t always had the cleanest reputation would be an understatement, but it seems he’s still finding new ways to dig his own grave. The Rolling Stone co-founder spoke to The New York Times about his upcoming book The Masters, which compiles interviews with seven musicians who are all white men: Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend. Wenner justified the lack of diversity by arguing that Black and female artists “just didn’t articulate at the level” of their white male peers.

In the introduction to The Masters, Wenner notes that Black performers were not part of his “zeitgeist” — a stance he doubled-down on in the Times interview: “When I was referring to the zeitgeist, I was referring to Black performers, not to the female performers, Ok? Just to get that accurate,” he quipped.

Wenner explained that...

Last year, Tommy Hilfiger returned to New York Fashion Week in Brooklyn after a three-year hiatus — and hasn’t taken the foot off the gas since. This year, head honcho Tommy Jacob Hilfiger and Sza hosted a brunch to celebrate the brand’s Fall 2023 campaign, which stars the Grammy-winner, her mother Audrey Rowe, her father Abdul Mubarak-Rowe, her niece Savannah Rowe, and other friends.

The brand’s new campaign emphasizes family and familial bonds, something Hilfiger tells Rolling Stone he didn’t want to fake or force this time around.

"It's not – having or not having compassion, my role is to discover. The truth is always revolutionary." Yep. Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Radical Wolfe, a compelling profile of the iconic writer / journalist Tom Wolfe. It will be opening in select theaters first in September, in art house cinemas this fall. This looks like a very smart doc! From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Throughout his career, he fused a conservative upbringing in Virginia with a cultural antenna from Yale's American Studies PhD program to write some of the most culturally impactful stories of the 20th century: The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. This doc features conversations and interviews with those who knew him best,...

Bob Dylan isn’t a singer who has written many top-10 charting singles. He’s never concerned himself with writing pop hits, but he also releases songs often longer than most hit singles. However, even Bob Dylan thought he got carried away when he wrote this song that lasted more than 10 minutes.

Bob Dylan thinks he got ‘carried away’ when he wrote ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’

“Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” was the final track of Dylan’s 1966 album Blonde on Blonde, and it took up the entire fourth side of the album. It’s an overwhelming song that lasts around 11 minutes and 23 seconds. In Dylan’s 1976 song, “Sara”, he confirmed this track was written for his first wife, Sara Dylan.

Dylan has had mixed feelings toward the song throughout his career. At one point, he believed it was the “best song” he’d ever written. However,...

John Lennon was influenced by many early American rock n’ roll stars and sometimes found his influences taking control of his style. He once got in trouble for ripping off Chuck Berry and went through a phase where he tried to emulate Bob Dylan. One song by The Beatles featured John Lennon playing energetically on the piano in a style similar to Jerry Lee Lewis.

John Lennon performed like Jerry Lee Lewis on The Beatles’ ‘I’m Down’

The Beatles first released “I’m Down” in 1965 as the B-side to “Help!”. The track is credited to Lennon-McCartney but was primarily written by Paul McCartney, who wrote the song while living in his girlfriend Jane Asher’s house. McCartney sings his lungs out on the song and was inspired by Little Richard’s powerful vocals.

“A lot of people were fans of Little Richard, so I used to sing his stuff,...

With no clues of an intruder, detectives find the bludgeoned body of “Realtor to the stars,’ Linda Stein in the latest episode of Oxygen True Crime‘s New York Homicide. Linda Stein was murdered – but who did it and why?

Stein’s apartment was found in meticulous order, but the crime scene pointed to homicide. Being a top Realtor, Stein had many admirers but also just as many enemies. With evidence from the crime scene, only painstaking sleuthing can identify her killer.

NYPD detectives make a gruesome discovery on ‘New York Homicide’

In an exclusive clip shared with Showbiz Cheat Sheet, retired detective Angelique Loffredo, NYPD North Homicide Squad said the team noticed there wasn’t any kind of “upset in the apartment.”

“Nothing was in disarray,” she recalled.

“When we get to the apartment, the victim was laying on the floor,” NYPD retired Chief of Detectives Robert K. Boyce revealed.

Much of John Lennon’s music is influenced by Bob Dylan. While Lennon blurred the line between inspiration and imitation, he learned to hone his songwriting style and avoid almost ripping off Dylan’s style. Lennon’s music became more introspective and personal in his solo career, but Dylan said there was one song by the former Beatle he struggled to relate to.

Bob Dylan can’t relate to John Lennon’s ‘Mother’ Yoko Ono and John Lennon | Bettmann / Contributor

“Mother” debuted on Lennon’s first solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The lyrics address both of Lennon’s parents. Lennon’s father abandoned him as an infant, and his mother was deemed unfit to care for him alone. The “Imagine” singer was raised by his aunt Mimi, but his mother still had daily contact with him until she was killed in a car accident when Lennon was 17.

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When John Lennon was done with The Beatles, he was done with The Beatles. He wanted to concentrate on moving forward and not looking back. That meant a reunion was absolutely out of the question.

The Beatles | Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images John Lennon quit The Beatles

Lennon officially told his bandmates, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, that he’d decided to leave the group during a meeting with Allen Klein in Sept. 1969. Klein convinced Lennon to keep his decision hush-hush so as to not compromise a renegotiation that was in the works with the group’s Emi/Capitol contract.

“We were discussing something in the office with Paul and Paul was saying to do something, and I kept saying, ‘No, no, no’ to everything he said,” reads Lennon Remembers by Jann S. Wenner, according to Beatles Bible. “So it came to a point that I had to say something.

After The Beatles broke up, John Lennon made his dissatisfaction with the band clear. He rolled his eyes at the music they made as a group and insulted his former bandmates’ solo efforts. Despite all that he shared with the press, Lennon’s actions told a different story. Here are three times he showed that he didn’t hate the band as much as he said he did.

The Beatles | Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images John Lennon apologized to Paul McCartney for leaving The Beatles

In 1969, Lennon told his bandmates that he wanted a divorce from The Beatles. Before this, he included a reference to Paul McCartney in the 1968 song “Glass Onion.”

“I threw the line in — ‘the Walrus was Paul’ — just to confuse everybody a bit more,” he said in the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview With John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff.

The exact cause of The Beatles’ break up has long been debated, but The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger isn’t often connected with the band’s demise. He didn’t cause their breakup by any means, but he did recommend Allen Klein as a manager for the group. The band’s appointment of Klein sparked such animosity and resentment that their collapse became inevitable.

Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger | Victor Blackman/Express/Getty Images The band’s manager, Brian Epstein, died unexpectedly

The Beatles began working with Brian Epstein in 1962, and with his help, they became the biggest band in the world. In 1967, though, Epstein suddenly died of an accidental overdose. The Beatles were in India at the time and could hardly believe the news.

“[T]hey said ‘Brian’s dead.’ I was stunned,” John Lennon said, per the book Lennon Remembers by Jann S. Wenner. “We all were.”

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Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to the documentary about “The Right Stuff” and “The Bonfire of the Vanities” writer Tom Wolfe titled “Radical Wolfe,” the company announced on Wednesday.

The documentary is an official adaptation of the 2015 Vanity Fair article “How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe” by Michael Lewis, best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short” and a longtime personal friend of Wolfe.

Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.

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The film is directed by Richard Dewey (“Burden”) and executive produced by David Light and Nathan Epstein and co-produced by Andy Fortenbacher.

The synopsis is as follows: From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement,...

Exclusive: The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities scribe Tom Wolfe is the subject of new documentary Radical Wolfe, an adaptation of a 2015 Vanity Fair article by Moneyball and The Big Short author Michael Lewis who was a longtime personal friend of Wolfe.

Kino Lorber has acquired all North American distribution rights to Richard Dewey’s under-the-radar film, which is currently in post-production and set to be released theatrically later this year.

Talking heads include Michael Lewis, Jann Wenner, Gay Talese, Lynn Nesbit, Terry McDonell, Tom Junod, Christopher Buckley, Niall Ferguson, and Alexandra Wolfe.

From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Wolfe is one of America’s most celebrated journalist-turned-novelists of the latter 20th Century. His books included The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, and A Man in Full.

George Harrison was best known for his guitar skills, but he also developed an interest in the sitar. The Beatle began fiddling around with the instrument while on the set of Help! In 1965. Soon, the instrument made its way onto a Beatles record. The instrument isn’t present in many of the band’s songs, but it did make repeat appearances. Here is every song that features George Harrison on the sitar.

‘Norwegian Wood’ George Harrison and Ravi Shankar | Bettmann / Contributor

“Norwegian Wood” is the first song featuring George Harrison playing the sitar. John Lennon wrote the 1965 Rubber Soul track, which is a Bob Dylan-influenced track with a blend of Indian music. Harrison bought the sitar he used for this song at a shop in Oxford Street called Indiacraft. Lennon suggested he use the instrument in the song, but it took Harrison a few tries before he could get the melody right.