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Growing sick of the criticism of the lack of weight their latter-day nominations and inductees carry, the directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum decide it's time to go off the reservation. Theorizing that rock 'n' roll wasn't just a music genre, but a cultural force from the mid-20th Century onward, they decided to put together a ballot that looked exclusively beyond the singers, musicians, composers, and producers that we most readily associate with rock 'n' roll. The Supplemental Ballot is made up of cultural figures that perhaps existed concurrently with rock 'n' roll, fed and supported the genre and its broader culture, documented it, collaborated with it, and were influential upon it.
High as a cloud, the directors started spitballing names. Realizing that the list quickly grew unwieldy, they capped the list at 100 (!) submissions, and even then, they knew there were some glaring omissions.
Having second thoughts about the whole enterprise, they sent the list to you for paring. Pick five to ten names to put on the final ballot.
Actors:
Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello
James Dean
Dennis Hopper
Ann-Margret
Jack Nicholson
Richard Roundtree
Choreographers:
Paula Abdul
Tony Basil
Mark Bruce
Rosie Perez
Twyla Tharp
Comics:
Lenny Bruce
George Carlin
The Monty Python cast
Eddie Murphy
Richard Pryor
The original SNL cast (plus Bill Murray)
Execs:
Albert and Moss
Miles Copeland
John Hammond
Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera
Bob Stigwood
Fiction Writers:
Roddy Doyle
Nick Hornby
Steven King
Jonathan Lethem
Filmmakers:
Wes Anderson
Michelangelo Antonioni
William Asher
Alex Cox
Cameron Crowe
Jonathan Demme
Walter Hill
Jim Jarmusch
Richard Lester
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Alan Parker
D.A. Pennebraker
Rob Reiner
Martin Scorsese
Penelope Spheeris
Michael Wadleigh
Groupies:
Bebe Buell
Pamela Des Barres
Jerri Hall
The Plaster Casters
Sweet Sweet Connie
Instrument Pioneers:
Jim Marshall
Robert Arthur Moog
Adolph Rickenbacker
Avedis Zildjian
Journalists/Biographers:
Lester Bangs
Robert Cristgau
Ben Fong-Torres
Albert Goldman
Dave Marsh
Legs McNeil
Griel Marcus
Kurt Loder
Danny Sugarman
Hunter S. Thompson
Performance Artists:
Laurie Anderson
Karen Finley
Yoko Ono
Poets:
Jim Carroll
Lawrence Ferlengetti
Alan Ginsburg
Jack Kerouac
Frank O’Hara
Promoters, Managers, and Club Owners:
Jerry Brandt
Sid Bernstein
Bob Geldof
Bill Graham
Chet Helms
Alan Klein
Artie Kornfeld, John P. Roberts, and Joel Rosenman
Hilly Kristal
Michael Lang
Colonel Tom Parker
TV Hosts/Producers:
Dick Clark
Don Cornelius
Kenny Everett
Don Kirschner
David Letterman and Paul Schaefer
Lorne Michaels
The Smothers Brothers
Ed Sullivan
Burt Sugarman
Visual Artists:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Peter Blake and Jann Haworth
R. Crumb
Keith Haring
Astrid Kirchherr
Stan Lee
Roy Lichtenstein
Annie Liebovitz
Robert Mapplethorpe
Kenny Scharrf
Klauss Voorman
Andy Warhol
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