Streetlife
Guest
|
 Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: R&R Hall of Fame annex in NYC |
 |
|
Rock on, New York! Hall of Fame goes on the road
BY GLENN GAMBOA | glenn.gamboa@newsday.com
August 13, 2008
Billy Joel's lyric notebook for "The Stranger"; Bruce Springsteen's
1957 Bel Air Chevy Convertible, the first car The Boss ever owned; and
the phone booth from CBGB are among the new items set for display at
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex when it opens in November.
The 25,000 square-foot building at 76 Mercer St., in SoHo, will be the
first outpost for the Cleveland-based museum and will include a
standing "New York Rocks" gallery that will pay tribute to the area's
rock heritage, as well as traveling exhibits from the main museum's
collections, according to Joel Peresman, the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Foundation's president and chief executive.
Joel was on hand yesterday for the announcement of the annex, along
with Sony BMG's chief creative officer Clive Davis and Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, but he couldn't hand over the piece from the final Shea
Stadium concerts that the museum had asked him to donate. "I was
supposed to be giving the jersey that I was given at Shea Stadium
during the shows, but actually that jersey is in a road case on its
way to Hong Kong," Joel said. "So this morning, I ran around my house
looking for tchotchkes that I could give and I was pulling stuff off
the walls."
Joel settled on a bat that had been given to him by Mets third baseman
David Wright and a plaque he was given to commemorate his 12 sold-out
shows at Madison Square Garden.
Though he is already a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Joel said being
part of the annex in New York was also important to him. "New York
gave me my words and my music," Joel said. "Rock and roll gave me a
place for that music to live."
The Annex will be operated by Running Subway, the producers of the
"Bodies" exhibit at South Street Seaport, and curated by the Rock
Hall's museum staff. Items from the Cleveland museum's collection,
including John Lennon's Record Plant piano, a motorcycle jacket from
Elvis Presley and a handwritten poem from Jim Morrison will also be
part of the initial display.
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-etrock0813,0,1752383.story |
|
