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Ed Dougherty brings up a name famously unpopular with music writers: Rush. “Every album of theirs has at least gone gold here in the States, the same lineup for (going on) 34 years. You mean, You know Rush and their fans are rock’s equivalent of the ‘Land of Misfit Toys’ but still …”
James Gemmell believes that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee should consider having more baseline criteria than just “25 years since the act’s first recording.”
“For example, the artist must have sold more than 50 million records to be given consideration,” Gemmell writes. “The rock band Deep Purple has sold more records than just about any artist or group not yet elected into the Hall of Fame. The band has sold more than 130 million records worldwide since 1968, and still tours and puts out albums to this very day. Purple had a Top 5 hit in 1968 with ‘Hush,’ and, of course, recorded the most famous song in rock history, ‘Smoke on the Water,’ in 1972. (”In history?” — Ed.) The Guiness Book of World Records once listed it as second only to “Happy Birthday” as the most well-known song in the world. What hurt Purple was that the band broke up in the mid-1970’s, at the height of its fame, and did not re-group until 1984. Still, the reunion tour in 1985 was the second-highest grossing U.S. tour.”
by on Mon, Dec 17, at 2:32
Madonna burns up
Part of an ongoing series of tributes to Michigan’s own Madonna, who enters the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 10.
In her second music video, Madonna rolls around on the street, apparently practicing the moves she’d later put to use on-stage at MTV’s Video Music Awards in 1984.
By today’s standards, the video is awful. There’s a bunch of strange cutaways and non-sequiturs that attempt to add mystery to a clip that warrants none.