Jann Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine, has been removed from the Hall of Fame’s board of directors after denigrating Black and female musicians in a New York Times interview.
Jann Wenner discusses his new book"Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir," at 92nd Street Y, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, in New York.
The statement did not elaborate on the reasons for his ouster. But it comes on the heels of a controversial interview, published Friday in the, to promote Wenner’s forthcoming book “The Masters,” a collection of interviews with leading rock musicians of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s that includes only white men, such as Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Bono and Bruce Springsteen.
“The selection was not a deliberate selection,” Wenner replied. “It was kind of intuitive over the years; it just fell together that way. The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them.” “It’s not that they’re not creative geniuses. It’s not that they’re inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin,” he said. “Please, be my guest. You know, Joni was not a philosopher of rock ‘n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.”
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