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a day ago
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- Yahoo
Legendary '60s Musician Refuses Rock Hall Honor Over ‘Insulting' Label
Legendary '60s Musician Refuses Rock Hall Honor Over 'Insulting' Label originally appeared on Parade. Iconic musician Carol Kaye is skipping this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony — and she's not holding back about why. Kaye, 90, reportedly explained in a Facebook post that she's turning down the honor because the event doesn't properly represent the legacy of studio musicians during her era. 'NO I won't be there,' she wrote. 'I am declining the awards show… turning it down because it wasn't something that reflects the work that Studio Musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s Recording Hits.' She also voiced frustration over the Hall referring to her as part of the 'Wrecking Crew,' a label she's long rejected. 'You are always part of a TEAM, not a solo artist at all,' she wrote. 'There were always 350–400 Studio Musicians… I was never a 'wrecker' at all… that's a terrible, insulting name.' Shortly after her induction was announced, Kaye doubled down in the comments, saying, 'Please know our only name was Studio Musicians,' and added she wasn't sure if she could tolerate being labeled a 'wrecker' to attend the event. Although Kaye is opting out, the Hall will still induct her. A pioneering bassist with more than 10,000 recording credits, Kaye helped shape the sound of popular music behind the scenes, performing on hits by The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel and The Supremes — just to name a few. In her post, she also reflected on her unconventional rise to fame. Originally a jazz guitarist, she was invited to a recording session in 1957 and accidentally ended up playing bass in 1963 when another musician failed to show. 'I never played bass in my life,' she recalled, but quickly found a knack for inventing catchy bass lines. 'As a jazz musician, you invent every note you play.' Now, despite the honor, Kaye is choosing to stand by her values. 'I refuse to be part of a process that is something else rather than what I believe in… We all enjoyed working with EACH OTHER.' Legendary '60s Musician Refuses Rock Hall Honor Over 'Insulting' Label first appeared on Parade on Jun 19, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 19, 2025, where it first appeared.
Barnama
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Barnama
Rock Hall Unveils SNL 50th Anniversary Exhibit Featuring Fred Armisen
KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Bernama) -- The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Rock Hall) and Saturday Night Live (SNL) officially opened their landmark 50th anniversary exhibit, 'SNL: Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of Music', recently with a special performance by SNL alumnus Fred Armisen. According to a statement, the celebration took place at the Rock Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing fans and music lovers to explore the deep connection between SNL and the music world. The event celebrated the musical legacy of the show, which has featured over 1,900 musical guest performances and more than 150 Rock Hall inductees over its five-decade run.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Music and Film Icon Celebrated on Her 79th Birthday
Happy birthday to Cheryl Sarkisian, the music and film icon better known as simply , who turns 79 on Tuesday, May 20. Among those honoring the legend is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the institution that she once swore off and was later inducted into. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Back in 2023, Cher told , 'I wouldn't be in it now if they gave me a million dollars,' she said. 'I'm not kidding you. I'm never going to change my mind. They can just you-know-what themselves.' Less than a year later, she accepted induction into the Rock Hall. On her birthday, the Rock Hall acknowledged the artist by sending out an email honoring the icon.'An artist so iconic she needs only one name, Cher has used her distinctive voice, stage presence, and avant-garde fashion to achieve unprecedented success while blazing a trail for women performers. A musician who personifies female creative freedom in a male-dominated industry, Cher is the only woman to have a Number One hit on a Billboard chart in each of the past seven decades,' the message read. While the singer/actress published her book Cher: The Memoir, Part One last year, the Rock Hall is celebrating the publication of another book focusing on the legend—I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cherby author —with a book-signing event on June 7. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is also celebrating Cher with an exhibit displaying her fabulous outfits as part of its 2024 Inductees Exhibit by . The Rock Hall also shared an Instagram post in honor of Cher's birthday.
Axios
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Axios
Bob Dylan artifacts head to Rock Hall ahead of Outlaw Music Festival
Bob Dylan and his legacy will be front and center in Northeast Ohio this week. State of play: Dylan will co-headline the Outlaw Music Festival alongside Willie Nelson at Blossom Music Center on Saturday. In honor of the show, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is adding artifacts from the 1988 inductee to the Legends of Rock exhibit located on Levels 5 and 6 of the museum. What's inside: New items include one of Dylan's electric guitars, a piece of his artwork and a photo by famed photographer Elliott Landy. They join items previously on display, including one of Dylan's harmonicas and the reel-to-reel tape recorder he used while playing with the band. If you go: The Dylan artifacts go on display Thursday, the same day the Rock Hall hosts its free Mx. Juneteenth celebration on its front plaza.
The Independent
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys leader and summer's poet laureate, dies at 82
Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader who helped compose and arrange ' Good Vibrations,' 'California Girls' and dozens of other summertime anthems and became one of the world's most influential and admired musicians, has died at 82. Wilson's family posted news of his death to his website Wednesday. Further details weren't immediately available. Since May 2024, Wilson had been under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs, with Wilson's longtime representatives in charge. The eldest and last surviving of three musical brothers — Brian played bass, Carl lead guitar and Dennis drums — he and his fellow Beach Boys rose from local act to national hitmakers to international ambassadors of the American dream. Wilson himself was celebrated for his beautiful music and pitied for his demons. He was one of rock's great Romantics, a tortured soul who in his peak years embarked on an ever-steeper quest for aural perfection. The Beach Boys rank among the most popular acts of the rock era, with more than 30 singles in the Top 40 and worldwide sales of more than 100 million. 1966's 'Pet Sounds' was voted No. 2 in a 2003 Rolling Stone list of the best 500 albums, losing out, as Wilson did from the start, to the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.' The Beach Boys, who also featured Wilson cousin Mike Love and family friend Al Jardine, were voted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Fans ranged from Elton John and Bruce Springsteen to Katy Perry and Bob Dylan. The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, fantasized about joining the Beach Boys. Paul McCartney cited 'Pet Sounds' as a direct inspiration on the Beatles and said the ballad 'God Only Knows' often moved him to tears. Their music was like an ongoing party, with Wilson as mastermind and wallflower. He was a tall, shy man, partially deaf (allegedly because of beatings by his father, Murry Wilson), with a sweet, crooked grin, and he rarely touched a surfboard unless for publicity. But out of the lifestyle that he observed and such musical influences as Chuck Berry and the Four Freshmen, he devised a magical and durable soundscape — easy melodies, bright harmonies, vignettes of beaches, cars and girls that resonated worldwide. Decades after its first release, a Beach Boys song can still conjure up instant summer — the wake-up guitar riff that opens 'Surfin' USA'; the melting harmonies of 'Don't Worry Baby'; the chants of 'fun, fun, fun' or 'good, good, GOOD, good vibrations'; the behind-the-wheel chorus ''Round, 'round, get around, I get around.' Beach Boys songs have cheered on generations from iPods and boom boxes, radios and 8-track players, and any device that could be placed on a beach towel. The Beach Boys' innocent appeal survived changing trends and times and the group's increasingly troubled backstory — Brian's many personal trials; allegations of their father's mismanagement and physical abuse; feuds and lawsuits; the alcoholism of Dennis Wilson, who drowned in 1983. Brian Wilson's ambition took the Beach Boys into territory far beyond the simple pleasures of their early hits — transcendent, eccentric and destructive. They seemed to live out every fantasy, and every nightmare, of the California myth. Brian Wilson was born June 20, 1942, two days after McCartney. His musical gifts were obvious and as a boy he was playing piano and teaching his brothers to sing harmony. The Beach Boys started as a neighborhood act, rehearsing in Brian's bedroom and in the garage of their house in suburban Hawthorne, California. Surf music was catching on locally and Dennis, the group's only real surfer, suggested they cash in. Brian and Love hastily wrote up their first single, 'Surfin,'' a minor hit released in 1961. They wanted to call themselves the Pendletones, in honor of a popular shirt. But when they first saw the pressings for 'Surfin,'' they discovered the record label had tagged them 'The Beach Boys.' Other decisions were handled by their father, a musician and apparent tyrant who hired himself as the manager and holy terror. By mid-decade, Murry Wilson had been displaced and Brian was in charge. Their breakthrough came in early 1963 with 'Surfin' USA,' so closely modeled on Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Little Sixteen' that Berry successfully sued to get a songwriting credit. It was their first Top 10 hit and a boast to the nation: 'If everybody had an ocean / across the USA / then everybody'd be surfin', / like Cali-for-nye-ay.' From 1963-66, they were rarely off the charts, hitting No. 1 with 'I Get Around' and 'Help Me, Rhonda' and narrowly missing with 'California Girls' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun.' For their many television appearances, they wore candy-striped shirts and grinned as they mimed their latest hit, with a hot rod or surfboard nearby. Wilson often contrasted his own bright falsetto with Love's nasal, deadpan tenor. The extroverted Love was out front on the fast songs, but when it was time for a slow one, Brian often took over. 'The Warmth of the Sun' was a song of despair and consolation that Wilson alleged — to some skepticism — he wrote the morning after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 'Don't Worry Baby,' a ballad equally intoxicating and heartbreaking, was a leading man's confession of doubt and dependence, an early peek at Brian's crippling insecurities. His first marriage, to singer Marilyn Rovell, ended in divorce and he became estranged from daughters Carnie and Wendy, who would help form the pop trio Wilson Phillips. His life stabilized in 1995 with his marriage to Melinda Ledbetter, with whom he had daughters Daria and Delanie. He also reconciled with Carnie and Wendy and they sang together on the 1997 album 'The Wilsons.' Melinda Ledbetter died in 2024.
