Once again the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is preparing for more inductees. Once again controversy will be revisited. It’s the nature of halls of fame. Everybody is not equally worthy. Perhaps asterisks need to be affixed or shrine space reduced for the non-iconic. Otherwise you get, as with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, membership that will soon include, for example: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Platters, the Drifters, the Temptations, the Rolling Stones and — Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
For the record, I’d also have a problem if Cooperstown, whose enshrinees include Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Henry Aaron, Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays, were to add Pat Burrell.