Chicago,Steve Miller, Cheap Trick and Deep Purple all made it in, and but it was Springsteen’s boycott,the absence of Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore and the organization’s treatment of acts that loomed largeIt was supposed to be a night that celebrated some of rock’n’roll’s most under appreciated acts and one of hip-hop’s greatest, but it was long running feuds, and the power of the genre to influence politics and the institution itself which became the main talking points.
At the Barclays middle in Brooklyn,Steve Miller took the organization to task for not “respecting” artists, Deep Purple were confronted with the absence of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and E Street Band member Steve Van Zandt doubled down on Bruce Springsteen’s decision to boycott a gig in North Carolina.
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Source: theguardian.com