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His Purple Majesty: Prince (1958-2016)
\"Still reeling from the shocking death of British singer David Bowie in January, the rock music world was again dealt a devastating blow when pop icon Prince died suddenly on April 21 [2016]. The singer, musician, and songwriter was found unresponsive...by Carver County sheriff's deputies in an elevator of his Paisley Park studio and residence in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The cause of death was unknown. An autopsy was conducted Friday, but authorities said it may be days or weeks before results are complete. A private gathering was held at Paisley Park on Saturday to mourn the musician. He was 57.\" (World Book Online Behind the Headlines) Read more about the life and career of Prince.
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The Grammy Awards
In December 2004, \"Grammy Award Nominees and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees [were] announced.\" (Kidsnewsroom) Learn more about the Grammy and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards ceremonies. The way artists are nominated for these awards is described and the artists to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 are named.
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ROCK SHRINE CREDIBILITY IS CRUMBLING
Since 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has been inducting musicians for enshrinement in its glittering glass pyramid on Lake Erie. The first few years, this seemed like a fine idea, or at least not such a bad one. Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Little Richard all got in first. You know, the usual suspects. Hard to argue with, and a lineup that set a tone for inclusion that screamed invention, impact and influence.
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ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERT A HIT
Had a bomb gone off at Wilbert's, a small blues bar on St. Clair St., on Sept. 1, there wouldn't be more than a handful of music critics left in the United States. Word leaked that Bruce Springsteen's \"people\" had called the club earlier in the week to ask if the Boss could play an unannounced warm-up gig there before his performance last Saturday at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Writers from almost every major newspaper in the country staked out Wilbert's until 2 a.m., waiting for Springsteen to stroll through the door. He was obviously conserving his strength for Saturday's 6-hour-and-45-minute all-star benefit concert, in which he reunited with the E Street Band and appeared with Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan and Jerry Lee Lewis. Springsteen's set of his own classics, including She's the One and Darkness on the Edge of Town , was among the evening's most transcendent.
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STAR-STUDDED SHOW OPENS HALL LEGENDS, CONTEMPORARY PERFORMERS COMMEMORATE ROCK'S ROOTS
That was certainly the case Saturday night at Municipal Stadium. The Concert for the Hall of Fame paired rock legends with contemporary stars to pay tribute to the music's pioneers, and raise funds for the newly opened Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Chuck Berry and Bruce Springsteen kicked off the historic show at 7:30 p.m. sharp with a spirited rendition of Berry's classic Johnny B. Goode. ` `This is a great moment for music, a great moment for Cleveland and a great moment for those of us here who helped build the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,\" said Ahmet Ertegen, chairmen and chief executive officer of Atlantic Records.
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THE BOSS AND BERRY DUCK DOWN - ROCK N ROLLS IN TOWN
If we can trust those who made it happen, it was planned to be a celebration of rock 'n' roll itself, by those who created it - from Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis - and by those who have taken it from the juke joints and roadhouses into the global village. The idea was dramatically illustrated in the opening number of Saturday night's concert, which had Berry, 69, singing Johnny B. Goode with Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band. If Springsteen, 46, is typical of his generation, Johnny B. Goode was one of the first songs he learned to play on his cheap electric guitar, and it wouldn't have taken him long. The song, about a country boy who picks up a guitar and becomes the \"leader of a big ol' band\" has exactly three chords. Saturday night's marathon concert, which capped a wild weekend of tributes to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the city of Cleveland itself, was a musical summation of the first 35 years in an ever-evolving, ever-retreating, ever-progressing, ever-depleting, ever-surprising - dare we say it - art.
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PLENTY OF GOLD AS WELL AS GLITZ IN ROCK'S HALL RELICS PUT MUSIC IN PERSPECTIVE
To answer the crucial questions first: No, rock 'n' roll doesn't need a museum. If, as the song goes, it will never die, it doesn't need a mausoleum. And yes, the idea of a Hall of Fame that honors the music's heroes is at the least ironic, and at the most, antithetical to the rebellious principles on which rock 'n' roll was founded. That said, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which officially opens in Cleveland on Saturday, was inevitable. Rock 'n' roll may have been created by outsiders, as Bruce Springsteen claims in the film which acclimates visitors to the museum experience, but the insiders bought out the biggest part of it long ago. The grab began when The Radio Corporation of America bought the contract of Hillbilly Cat Elvis Presley for a few thousand dollars, a lot less than what one of his gaudy jump suits like the one on display in the museum would go for today.
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OPENING NOTES ROCK HALL GOES FOR SPECTACULAR
Ringo Starr lost his head at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. So did the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Elton John and Gene Simmons of Kiss. Wax mannequins dressed in dazzling stage costumes worn by these and other performers are arrayed in display cases as part of the museum's \"U Got the Look\" exhibit. However, their heads - bearing varying degrees of likeness to the stars - are situated on the wall behind each dummy, or at its feet. The glass cases were built before the mannequins arrived, explained Robert Santelli, the museum's education director, during Thursday's media preview tour of the $92 million shrine on the Lake Erie shore. The heads fit, Santelli said, but just barely.
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