Posted December 14, 200717 yr Madonna enters the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 16:19 | Friday December 14, 2007 By Anna Goldie Madonna is joining Leonard Cohen, John Mellencamp, The Dave Clark Five and The Ventures in being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2008. The five acts were chosen by 600 music industry professionals and beat off competition from disco star Donna Summer, New York-based funk group Chic, Afrika Bambaataa and The Beastie Boys, who were also nominated for the accolade. Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation president Joel Peresman says, "The five inductees we're very proud of. It really truly represents the wide spectrum of what rock and roll is all about." Artists are eligible for induction into the Hall Of Fame 25 years after the release of their first single or album and are represented at a permanent exhibition at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame museum in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the first time Madonna has been nominated for the award, but the not the first for Sixties band The Dave Clark Five, who were described by the Foundation as a “an enormous pop phenomenon”. Madonna’s first album Madonna debuted in 1982 and featured well known hits such as Borderline, Holiday and Lucky Star. "(The voters) don't really look at album sales and ticket sales as being the defining category of why someone gets inducted, it's really their influence and their place in history," Peresman adds. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation described Canadian Leonard Cohen, as "folk rock icon of the singer songwriter movement" who is among the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters." Producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff will be inducted in the non-performer category and the late Little Walter in the so-called "sideman" category for his "pioneering use of the microphone (that) helped establish the modern blues harmonica." The inductees with honoured at a ceremony in New York on March 10 http://www.musicweek.com/Pictures/web/q/e/h/madonna.jpg
December 15, 200717 yr There is so much hoo-haa surrounding her induction it's ridiculous. So many people are livid saying that her music doesn't have roots in rock & that she doesn't deserve to be inducted & blah blah blah I really can't stand it! She never conforms, always does her own thing & she doesn't give a flying fukc what people think of her! She brings up the underground & marry it with mainstream, always pushing boundaries, giving another perspective & affecting people around her! Those traits are rock & roll! And her music has got some rock in them sometimes! Gambler, Crazy For You, Like A Prayer, Candy Perfume Girl, I Love New York etc! So I really don't understand people being anal about it! Read this! : "Finally, Madonna gets peer cred as being an inductee, in her first year of eligibility to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I am a HUGE Madonna fan and I love her music and iconoclastic performances of the same. However, just because Madonna is the most successful female artist of all time, doesn't mean she makes rock music. There is a huge dissent amongst music fans as to whether she's valuable enough to place in the Hall of Fame. I consider this criticism unfounded, and mostly from middle-aged men who miss their rock bands of the 70s and can't stand the fact that a middle aged women has done better then they have...or flat out misogynists. Madonna has mostly written songs in punk formats. These formats have been produced into everything from disco, girl group fanfare, pop, light rock, house, R&B, electronica, euro dance, techno folk, then modernized disco (again) and come this Spring, hip-hop. Her ability to elevate the avant garde and underground into commercial success is astronomical. I am so grateful about that cos it let's me hear/learn about new things I may not have been exposed to. Her attitude is so punk/rock-n-roll, however, her music is still commercial. I will never hold that against Madonna. In fact, I think her ability to bring that front to the forward, on the square is so rare and special, it is what makes her so worthy of being an inductee. Madonna is f***ing amazing. But to put her out there like some brilliant rock musician or lyricist, is a fraud. She ingeniously promotes what she's learned/feels/heard in life so we all can have it. In a really f***ed up analogy, it's like she's the first author of the Bible for female artists. She deserves to be in the R&R Hall of Fame because of her redefinition of the role of women in music and how much control they have creatively, business wise or image wise. As Susan Sarandon put it, there are two catagories of women in music, those before Madonna and those that came after Madonna. Take it for what it's worth." SeRaphinE From MADONNATRIBE!
December 16, 200717 yr Madonna On Her Induction. Madonna speaketh: Incoming Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Madonna considers herself in good company. "I was fortunate to have inducted my idol David Bowie a few years back, so to be included alongside him and so many other amazing artists that have come before me is an honor," the pop icon said in a statement to The Plain Dealer, sent Friday through her publicist. Madonna did indeed do the honors when Bowie was enshrined in 1996, although he chose not to attend the festivities. Madonna is expected to be on hand for the Rock Hall's 23rd annual induction ceremony Monday, March 10, at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, her publicist said. The other performers in the Rock Hall's Class of 2008 are the Ventures, John Mellencamp, the Dave Clark Five and Leonard Cohen.
