museum and organization dedicated to influential people era of rock music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was founded in 1983 in the USA by leading figures music business, including Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun and magazine publisher Rolling stone Jan Wenner. They wanted to create an organization that would celebrate the people who "created the most popular music our time".
In 1986, the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Then the merits of Elvis Presley, James Brown, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers and other artists were noted. That same year, the event organizers selected Cleveland, Ohio, as the permanent location of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and Museum, through a USA Today public poll. It was determined that the musician becomes eligible to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after 25 years after the release of his debut record. The inclusion ceremony, during which an expert jury selected from five to seven artists, began to take place annually.
In September 1995, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum was opened in Cleveland, designed by architect Yeoh Ming Pei. On this occasion, arranged a charity concert, which was attended by the most bright stars rock music: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and other artists.
In 2006, Joel Peresman became President of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and Museum. Under his leadership, work began on the creation of a library and archive of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the museum's exposition was increased.
Over the years of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's existence, such outstanding musicians as Roy Orbison, BB King, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Patti Smith, Madonna , bands The The Beatles Rolling Stones The Who, The Doors, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Aerosmith, Queen, Metallica.
The first punk band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was the Clash in 2003. The British punk band the Sex Pistols were inducted into American Hall rock and roll fame in 2006. R&B and soul singer Aretha Franklin is the first woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The first hip-hop group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was the South Bronx band Grandmaster Flash. and the Furious Five. Another rap group, Run-D.M.C. entered the Hall of Fame in 2009, in 2012 the cult trio joined the list of hip-hop artists of the Hall of Fame.
In 2010, The Stooges, The Hollies, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis and were admitted to the Hall of Fame, in 2011 - Tom Waits and Alice Cooper, in 2012 - Guns N "Roses, red hot chili peppers, as well as singer Donovan and The Small Faces. In 2013, members of the Hall of Fame became Canadian group Rush, progressive rock, hip hop act Public Enemy, hard rock band Heart, and singer Randy Newman. "Disco Queen" Donna Summer and bluesman Albert King were inducted into the Hall of Fame posthumously.
December 17, 2013 that the famous musical groups Nirvana, Kiss, as well as the British musician performer Peter Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. The artist announcement ceremony will take place on April 10 in New York. Music band famous American rock singer Bruce Springsteen E Street Band is included in a separate prestigious nomination "For musical excellence". Inducted into the Hall of Fame for the first time English singer Cat Stevens, 1970s country rock star Linda Ronstadt, Hall & Oates duo, and manager The Beatles Brian Epstein and Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
Since its opening, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum has welcomed nearly eight million visitors from around the world.
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"If you don't like rock, you just don't know rock." Tell about it the most popular genre music and make you fall in love with him is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mission that he has been doing successfully for over 20 years. One of the most popular "musical" attractions in the United States is a 6-story multimedia museum complex where everything is up to the smallest details dedicated to "pure and holy" fate. trace the history of this musical direction from fine compositions of the early 20th century. to violent modern times, see Elvis' guitar and Ringo's drum, relive exciting moments legendary shows and hear rare recordings of the luminaries of rock ... "I know it's just rock and roll, but I like it!"
A bit of history
The idea to pay tribute to outstanding rock and roll performers came up with the founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun. In 1983, he formed an association with several music industry professionals called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Initially, it was what is called a virtual project: every year, members of the founding committee of the association general meeting 5-7 most significant musicians of this genre were chosen, which was then reported in the press. The situation changed in 1986, when the organization announced the search for a place for a very real hall of fame, which would combine the museum and the headquarters of the association. The competition was won by Cleveland, overtaking such powerful musical competitors as New York, San Francisco, Memphis and Chicago. Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Pete Townsend and Sam Phillips performed at the groundbreaking ceremony for the future Hall of Fame in 1993, and two years later the red ribbon was solemnly cut by Little Richard and Yoko Ono. Since then, the museum has welcomed over 10 million visitors.
The Guitar Gallery features 15 unique instruments who defined the history of rock and roll.
What to see
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame occupies a futuristic 6-story building designed by an American architect Chinese origin Yuming Pei, the author of the famous Pyramid of the Louvre.
The Rock Theater shows a film every half an hour, presenting the most bright episodes With last ceremony inclusion in the Hall of Fame. The Roots of Rock Gallery will tell you about the musical styles that preceded rock and roll: blues, gospel, country, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk. Artifacts from stage life famous artists these genres and is given short biography. Wearing headphones, you can listen to their most popular songs.
Elvis Presley in the museum is dedicated to a vast exposition, showing him not only as an outstanding musician, but also as a wise interlocutor, a spiritual thinker and a generous philanthropist. Among the exhibits are an army uniform and a golden tuxedo, a 1975 Supertrike motorcycle and a Lincoln Continental car, an exclusive Fender Doublebass guitar and a music kiosk filled exclusively with Elvis discs - a gift to the musician from record company RCA.
The exhibition "Cities and Sounds" introduces visitors to the "native" cities of various musical genres. early years rock in Memphis, motown in Detroit, punk in New York, grunge in Seattle, Liverpool and the "British Invasion" - styles of music are inseparable from the places where they originated.
The exposition "Legends of Rock" is a phenomenal collection of stage accessories of famous rockers. Here you can see Axl Rose's bandanas and Keith Moon's bass drum, enchanting costumes David Bowie and the Beatles' bonton trebles, Michael Jackson's diamond glove, and Jim Morrison's scout uniform.
The Guitar Gallery showcases 15 unique instruments that have defined the history of rock and roll, from acoustic guitar Eric Clapton in 1977, on which the musician played in the MTV Unplugged concert before John Lennon's electric guitar in 1965. The Architects of Rock Hall will introduce those who are indispensable for the sound of rock and roll - the inventors of electric guitars, DJs and popularizers of this musical genre. In the interactive exhibition "Songs that created rock" you can hear top songs different years, as well as recall groups and performers of one song. The Connor Theater on the third floor of the museum invites you to experience the most bright moments concerts from the Hall of Fame induction ceremony projected on a hemispherical screen high definition with panoramic sound.
On the fourth floor there is a permanent exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine, and the fifth is given to the legendary radio studio Alan Freed - the man who coined the term "rock and roll".
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, 2014
Practical Information
Address: Cleveland, 1100 Rock and Roll Boulevard. Website in English language.
Opening hours: daily from 10:00 to 17:30, on Wednesdays - until 21:00. The museum is closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Entrance - 26 USD, children - 16 USD. Children under 5 years old enter free of charge. When buying online, tickets will cost less: 23 USD and 14 USD, respectively. Prices on the page are for November 2018.
IN music world a scandal erupted due to the rating of overrated groups. Vulture magazine studied the list of musicians who are included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The worst bands were Queen and Bon Jovi. How did the author of the rating explain his choice and do you agree with this assessment? Russian musicians? About this - Ivan Yakunin.
“Bon Jovi is not a rock band at all, but people who starred in a movie about a rock band. How are these overgrown students from Red Hot Chili Peppers were able to ingratiate themselves with rock fans? These super-duper stars from Queen very quickly became uninteresting - like an ugly old children's toy for those who have already grown up, ”journalist Bill Wyman ruthlessly cracked down on those who got to the very bottom of the rating. Judging by his previous posts, this is his favorite format: it turns everything from Michael Jackson songs to The Beatles songs into a rating, ranking them from best to worst. And let his assessment cause indignation in the first place, in some ways he is right, the musician admits. Nike Borzov: “I think everything is correct. Apparently, ABBA rather contributed to the destruction of rock and roll as a popular style, because now pop music is all based on the song structure of the ABBA principle. Bon Jovi had rock albums in the beginning, and later albums are, in general, such pop music. The songs for them were started by the same guy who wrote the songs for Dr. Alban, and with the same words.
Sharp assessments of these performers sounded before. Conservative critics have noted that Bon Jovi, Queen, and ABBA are too loose with the laws of the genre. This is supposedly not rock at all - rather, pop. And ABBA, for example, does not always record arrangements with high quality, skeptics noted. In general, there was something to criticize for, but not so sharply. This opinion is also shared by the leader of the Cockroaches group Dmitry Spirin: “The very fact that the group is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it seems to me, already does them honor, and what place they find themselves among others ... Apparently, it was very difficult for the people who compiled this internal rating to arrange them in such a way that it was adequate. Therefore, it is understandable that the pioneers of the genre - Chuck Berry, the Ramones - go ahead, and the artists who, perhaps, did not play such an important role in the formation of rock music, to the end.
However, not for all popular artists Bill Wyman was unfavorable. The leaders of his rating were Chuck Berry, The Beatles and the winner nobel prize Bob Dylan. He described them as trendsetters in rock and roll - it was they, according to Wyman, who created the spirit of rock as a musical genre. But this also applies to all other artists who are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, singer Yuri Loza is convinced: “The whole world sings We Will Rock You, the whole world sings We Are The Champions, everyone sings Bohemian rhapsody. It's just higher than all rock music put together, and they put it in some places. Well, bullshit! Those who write, have they done anything? Drive them all in the neck, boobies who do not understand anything in life.
Ratings of the worst bands in history were published by many magazines. This and british Word, and American Blender. Each such material attracted the attention of readers. True, both magazines subsequently closed. I wonder if Vulture will take this experience into account or publish a new ranking next year.
There are 214 performers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are selected by a jury of 1,000 journalists, producers, music critics. The main rule is that a musician can get into the Hall of Fame only 25 years after the release of his first single.
USA"Everything is transient, but music is eternal." Peoples pass through time, leaving the imprints of their cultures on the face of the planet. Through the thickness of time years, not only monumental architectural masterpieces, covered with gray antiquity. Unforgettable musical works, brilliant composers and virtuoso performers are also forever imprinted in the memory of mankind, carefully preserving their melodic heritage, airy as an ether.
Over time, architectural preferences have changed, as well as musical tastes. Sometimes these concepts were combined, highlighting the most striking expressions of their era. As it happened in the state of Ohio on the American continent, where the Rock and Roll Museum and Hall of Fame was opened - a new musical trend that swept the entire planet in a whirlwind in the middle of the 20th century. Famed DJ Alan Freed, who worked for WMMS radio in Cleveland, in the early 1950s for new musical compositions coined the term rock and roll (rock and roll), which gave the right to a small American town to consider itself the birthplace of this musical direction.
The newly created organization paid tribute to recognition and honors outstanding composers and artists, producers and promoters, DJs and songwriters, agents, music journalists and other influential figures who have devoted their lives to the rock and roll music industry and have achieved significant success in this field. At its first meeting in 1986, the organizing committee named the first 10 legendary names to "open the doors" to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Since then, the new names of the Elite Ten have been announced every year at a ceremony held until 2009 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and now held in Cleveland.
Before the "introduction" to the Hall, its new members, according to the established tradition, will certainly give a concert. From the musical stage, not only rock and rock and roll sound, but also rhythm and blues, pop music and rap recitative, as well as melodies and rhythms of other styles and directions, the performers of which were recognized as worthy of the Hall of Fame. Among the many who want to get into the lists of world fame, they choose candidates who released their first single 25 years ago and influenced the formation and development of their work musical culture in the global community. 700 experts evaluate contenders for the hall of fame, who were divided into four categories: "Performers", "Non-Performers", "Classics", "Orchestras".
In 1995, for such a significant musical organization, as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, on the shores of Lake Erie, its own futuristic-looking building was built by architect Yeo Ming Pei. architectural composition, in which, in addition to the Hall of Fame, there is also a museum dedicated to the history of rock and roll, as well as concert hall, cinemas and restaurants, consists of a 50-meter tower, a double glass pyramid and a huge "popsicle on a stick" with an unfolding wrapper.
The explosive energy of the stylistic musical direction was fully reflected in the extraordinary design of the museum exhibition spaces, and in the bright exhibits, priceless in their uniqueness. Decorated cars of pop stars right under the sharp-angled roof of a transparent pyramid, stage costumes favorites of the public, their illustrious musical instruments and personal items, posters and magazines with images of idols, sculptures and installations musical heroes and much more is presented within the walls of a one-of-a-kind music museum. About 500,000 people a year visit the Rock and Roll Museum of Fame in Cleveland, which has become a real monument to rock and roll - a style loved by millions of music lovers around the world and has not lost its popularity for more than half a century.
Rock and Roll Museum and Hall of Fame
Everyone has heard of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where every rock band dreams of entering and which is undoubtedly recognition of the merits of the group or musician, they have contributed to the history of rock music.
Getting into the Hall of Fame is not easy, seven hundred experts select candidates for admission to the Hall of Fame, and the selection is only from those groups and performers who released their first record more than 25 years ago.
The Rock and Roll Fame Museum is located in Cleveland, and is located on the shores of Lake Erie between the Cleveland Browns Stadium and Burke Airport. The museum was opened in 1995 and became the first museum dedicated only to the history of rock and roll, only here you can see priceless exhibits, this is Janis Joplin's whimsically painted car, and the Bruce Springsteen costume in which he was photographed on the cover of his first album, Bono's first guitar and "Sergeant Pepper" uniform, which belonged to John Lennon and Ringo Starr.
From the side of the lake, you can clearly see the "heart" of the museum - a 50-meter tower, which stands at the very edge of the lake, in different sides two “wings” hang from it right above the lake unusual shape. One wing is a theater, the second is a round concert hall, the architecture of the building is such that it seems that the wings “scatter” in different directions from the tower. In the lobby of the tower, there is a glass entrance of a triangular shape, which has massive supports.
The glass pyramid is generally a favorite form of the architect Yong Ming Pei, who also designed the Louvre Pyramid in Paris.
The interiors of the museum have a very simple finish, white concrete at the base of the walls, light aluminum panels with 
gray inserts on the outer surface of the tower, grey colour along the perimeters of windows and a transparent glass pyramid, a dark gray floor, this is during the day, and at night the museum is transformed due to external illumination. Most of The museum's premises are located underground, which allows for better control over its interactive expositions.
How do they get there.
In 1986, the first meeting of the organizing committee was held, where they made up the top ten members of the Hall of Fame, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and the late Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.
Performers are inducted into the Hall of Fame at an annual ceremony traditionally held on New York at the Waldorf Astoria, at the induction ceremony, they usually play a concert. Not only rock musicians get into the hall, among the members of the hall there are many recognized masters of rhythm and blues, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and others, as well as some rappers, such as Grandmaster Flash. Since 2009, they decided to change the tradition and the ceremony of inclusion in the Hall of Fame will be held in Cleveland.
On this moment bands and artists can claim a seat in the Hall twenty-five years after the release of their first album. Candidates must demonstrate the value of their creativity within the world history rock and roll. There are currently four categories - “Performers”, “Non-Performers”, “Classics” and “Orchestra”.
The category “Performers” includes singers, musicians, vocal and instrumental groups. A special committee of music historians selects names, after which the list is processed by about a hundred experts - academics, journalists and producers, those who receive more than half of the votes go to the final; five of them are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
In the Classics category, those who influenced the formation of contemporary music in its early stages, since 2000, no one has been submitted to this category, until in 2009 the committee chose the singer Wanda Jackson.
“Non-performers” refers to those who primarily work outside the stage - executive directors recording studios, songwriters, producers, DJs, agents and music journalists, category in Lately replenished fairly steadily.
The "Orchestra" category was created for veterans of classical bands, here the selection is made by a large committee, consisting mainly of producers. The category was invented in 2000, then canceled in 2004 and returned again in 2008.
To be honest, ordinary fans don't pay much attention to either the categories or the hall itself.
