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Just hours after he was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner issued an apology for saying he chose interviews with a pantheon of white male musicians who he dubs the “philosophers of rock” because Black and female musicians were not “articulate at that level.”<\/p>\n

Late Saturday, the publisher of Wenner’s book Masters issued the following statement from Wenner: “In my interview with The New York Times<\/em> I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks.”<\/p>\n

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He continued, “The Masters<\/em> is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ’n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career. They don’t reflect my appreciation and admiration for myriad totemic, world-changing artists whose music and ideas I revere and will celebrate and promote as long as I live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.”<\/p>\n

Wenner was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which he co-founded, after a New York Times<\/em> interview regarding his book, which features interviews with Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Jerry Garcia and Pete Townsend.<\/p>\n

Asked by the Times<\/em> why he confined the book’s interviews to white males, Wenner said “it just fell together that way.”<\/p>\n

He then said that none of the women he considered were “as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”<\/p>\n

He added that the people he did interview were selected from his personal interests and love of them, and “were the kind of philosophers of rock.”<\/p>\n

Wenner also used the “articulate” argument in his explanation on why he excluded Black artists.<\/p>\n

“Of Black artists — you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right? I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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