New Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Chairman John Sykes tells us about the hall's scope, ambitions, and future legacy
founder Jann Wenner would be stepping down from his longtime post as chairman next year, the big question was whether changes would be on the horizon for the storied institution. John Sykes,“It will continue to evolve. Because if it doesn’t, it will become irrelevant,” Sykes tellsin 1967 and co-founded the Hall of Fame in 1983 before taking over as its head following founding chairman Ahmet Ertegun’s death in 2006 — on January 1st of next year.
How do you reckon with the brand’s name being inextricably tied to rock and roll, in a time when the genre isn’t nearly as present in pop culture? I think Jann, Ahmet and [Sire Records founder] Seymour [Stein] built an incredible Hall of Fame that reflected the state of music in the time that the institution was built. And Jann himself has said that it’s time to evolve. His work has been to make 1.0 and it’s time to take the hall to 2.0. T
What Jann taught all of us is that you really lead with your passion. None of us get paid for this — I’m still keeping my day job and running a division of iHeartRadio.
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