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Courtney Love slams Rock Hall’s ‘sexist gatekeeping,’ says: ‘Go to hell’

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The Guardian.“If so few Black artists, so few women of color, are being inducted, then the voting process needs to be overhauled.

Music is a lifeforce that is constantly evolving — and they can’t keep up.” The 58-year-old “Miss Narcissist” singer’s damning essay lists industry pioneers and visionaries like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chaka Khan, and Kate Bush as women who have been overlooked for years by the Rock Hall’s nominating board and voting body.

Love noted that Bush, for example, received her fourth HOF nomination last month, despite being eligible in 2004. “That year, Prince was inducted — deservedly, in his first year of eligibility — along with Jackson Browne, ZZ Top, Traffic, Bob Seger, the Dells, and George Harrison,” Love wrote.“The Rock Hall’s co-founder and then-chairman Jann Wenner (also the co-founder of Rolling Stone) was inducted himself.

But Bush didn’t make it on the ballot until 2018 — and still she is not in.”The Post has contacted reps for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for comment.The Rock Hall formed in 1983.

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