Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner removed from Rock Hall leadership after controversial comments

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52. Oh ouch, Television

That one hurts.

The Hall of Fame always has grappled with this specific flavor of snobbery that doesn't know how to deal with anything outside what they determined to be The Great Canon, as fossilized sometime in the early 70s, and both pop and proto-punk artists always had that struggle to be recognized by the old boys club. And they wait too long, and people who deserve to be recognized pass away. I hate it.

One of the most eloquent and beautifully-staged FUs I know of was when the Velvet Underground were inducted in '96 - talk about a band that clearly should have made it in their first year of eligibility. But they dicked around even though guitarist Sterling Morrison had cancer, and no, he didn't live to see it.

So instead of playing one of their obvious "hits" (for varying values of "hit&quot , the three surviving original members wrote a new song about Morrison and how much they missed him and played that.