BEE GEES TO BOOGIE INTO HALL OF FAME.Byline: Neil Strauss The New York Times Disco has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Bee Gees are among next year's seven inductees, announced Wednesday. Also, after being nominated for a third straight year, Joni Mitchell and Parliament-Funkadelic will finally be inducted, along with two bands that included Stephen Stills: Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills and Nash. The Jackson Five will also make it in, along with the Rascals. The all-star jam session that usually takes place at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony should be an interesting one: imagine Michael Jackson, Neil Young (of Buffalo Springfield), the Gibb brothers (of the Bee Gees) and Joni Mitchell rocking out together with Parliament-Funkadelic as a backing band. The winners were chosen from among 15 nominees by 1,000 music-industry executives and rock aficionados. (To be eligible for the hall, performers must have released their first album at least 25 years ago.) Nominees like the Moonglows, Black Sabbath, Lloyd Price, the Meters, the Stooges, and the Mamas and the Papas did not make the cut. The founder of bluegrass, Bill Monroe, and the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson will also be inducted in the early influences category, and Syd Nathan, the Ohio entrepreneur who started the influential independent label King in 1945, will be inducted in the nonperformer category. Though the induction ceremony is usually in New York in January, next year it is to take place at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland on May 15. (Ticket information is not yet available.) In future years, the ceremony is to move to other cities, including New York, London and Los Angeles. Sales follow the news: Sales for all of Tupac Shakur's albums have risen sharply since his death last week following a drive-by shooting. According to numbers released by Soundscan, the company in Hartsdale, N.Y. that monitors music sales, his current album, ``All Eyez on Me,'' jumped from No. 69 to No. 18 on the charts after weekly sales increased by nearly 40,000. His previous album, ``Me Against the World,'' re-entered the charts at No. 99 after sales increased from 2,200 copies to 12,200. ``Since his new record came out in February, sales had pretty much dropped off to two to five pieces a week,'' said David Middleton, a rock buyer at Tower Records in the East Village section of New York City. ``But after the news of his murder last weekend, we sold around 60 pieces of the album within a day.'' When asked whether sales of bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe's albums had increased since his death last week, Middleton said: ``I'm sure we'll see a little bit more of a rise in Bill Monroe sales. But it takes a little bit more than death: Suicide and murder seem to be the two best things for sales.'' Loose notes: New Edition's comeback album, ``Home Again,'' entered the pop charts Wednesday at No. 1, outselling R.E.M.'s ``New Adventures in Hi-Fi'' (which entered the charts at No. 2) by 821 copies. The restaurant and club Maxwell's, which has been luring rock fans to Hoboken, N.J., for nearly two decades, reopened on Monday. A fire in the kitchen earlier this month forced the club to close during the CMJ CMJ - Certified Measuring Judge CMJ - Chief of Military Justice CMJ - College Mathematics Journal CMJ - College Media Journal CMJ - Complete Metal Jacket Music Marathon. Concerts will continue as scheduled for the rest of the month, though there will be no food. |
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