The 77-year-old had made comments that were seen as disparaging toward Black and female musicians on a publicity tour to promote his new book, The Masters, that featured only white and male artists.
abc.net.au/news/jann-wenner-removed-from-rock-hall-leadership-rolling-stone/102867406Jann Wenner, who co-founded Rolling Stone magazine and was also a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall's board of directors after making comments that were seen as disparaging towards Black and female musicians.
"Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation," the hall said, a day after Wenner's comments were published in a New York Times interview. "You know, Joni [Mitchell] was not a philosopher of rock 'n' roll. She didn't, in my mind, meet that test."Of black artists — you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right? I suppose when you use a word as broad as 'masters,' the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn't articulate at that level."
Wenner co-founded Rolling Stone in 1967 and served as its editor or editorial director until 2019. He also co-founded the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which was launched in 1987."Just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one black and one woman artist to include here that didn't measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism," he said.
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