More rumours from Fox's Roger Friedman (you know, the man with the Jacko rumours). He claims that Brit band The Dave Clark Five should have been inducted into the US Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame this week, but that Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, who has become chairman of the Hall Of Fame since the previously reported death of former chair, Atlantic co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, overruled the rest of the committee who decide who gets inducted and let Grandmaster Flash in instead because, probably quite rightly, he thought it was about time hip hop got a look in at the US music institution. Friedman reports that The Dave Clark Five were six votes ahead of the hip hop legends, but that Wenner insisted Grandmaser Flash be honoured anyway. Other committee members apparently suggested they break with convention and induct six acts this year, but Wenner insisted on sticking to five, because he'd already booked Aretha Franklin to perform a song in memory of the aforementioned Ertegun, and he didn't think there'd be time at the event for a sixth induction.
Mar 15, 2007
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Dave Clark Five should have been inducted, not Grandmaster Flash
Fox's Roger Friedman claims The Dave Clark Five were ahead in committee votes but Jann Wenner overruled them to induct Grandmaster Flash.