By: Michael Martin
Michael Martin
Our inability to gather at the altar of music, to share in the joy of its many communal gifts, has taken a toll on us all, especially the tens of thousands of brilliant, committed members of this industry. By now we are all comfortably numb to the losses of lives, health, wellness, experiences, time, confidence in too many institutions to count and, perhaps most of all, justice for too many Black lives and too many names we can never stop saying.
It has been and remains a devastating time. But as our beloved and critically essential industry emerges slowly from the darkness, there is something beautiful appearing; abundance of hope and a renewed commitment to coming back stronger, more united and more urgently focused than ever before.
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Rolling Stone New Book Explores How the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Landed in Cleveland
“So many people want to claim they were responsible for bringing the Hall to Cleveland, says writer Norm Nite, “and I knew the real people that were responsible”
By Mark Duncan/AP
On October 2nd, 1995, weeks after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened its doors in Cleveland, Ohio,
Rolling Stone founder and then-Hall of Fame chairman Jann Wenner sent a letter to CBS disc jockey Norm N. Nite.
“With all the hoopla past us, I just want to take a moment to go on record and thank you for linking Cleveland to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in the first place,” he wrote. “Without your being there and doing the right thing at the right time when nobody else saw it it may never have happened. So my hat is off to you, an unsung hero of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”