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Photograph of Billy Joel and Mayor Bloomberg by Seth Wenig/AP
Alongside Billy Joel and record exec Clive Davis, Mayor Bloomberg announced today that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will open its first annex in Soho. The 25,000 square-foot annex will open at 76 Mercer Street where for $26, music fans can see Bruce Springsteen's first car and the phone booth from CBGB's. Both were on display as Bloomberg made the announcement today.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland in 1996 and this marks its first satellite expansion (a Las Vegas branch is also in the works). Bloomberg said that New York was a natural choice because "this is where Lou Reed took a walk on the wild side." The museum's president Terry Stewart said that the annex will "increase its visibility overall and drive tourist traffic to Cleveland." The NYC branch will feature an "immersive theater," items from the Cleveland museum, and an exhibit called "New York Rocks" which will map NYC locations with musical significance and offer items like Billy Joel's notebook with lyrics for "The Stranger."
Joel, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer since 1999 was on hand and regifted a baseball bat autographed by David Wright that he received during the final two concerts he performed at Shea Stadium last month. “New York gave me my words and my music,” Mr. Joel said, “and rock ’n’ roll gave me a place for that music to live.”
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The RRHOF needs to re-examine just what R&R is. Some of the most recent inductees are very questionable.
About time the New York Dolls were honored.
sweet!
wow talk about rip off.
Like Ronnie B says, how is this any different than going to a Hard Rock?
Bloomberg is so not rock and roll. He's a total square and is painfully uncomfortable, in his uber starched, buttoned up over his adam's apple, oppressor shirt.
No, Bloomberg's not R 'n R, he's a business man - and this is business. Another overpriced tourist trap in Soho, where apartment sales are now listed with dollars/euros.
Not the same. People who go to the "real" RRHOF get points for actually going to Howard the Duck's town.
I can't wait not to go and throw $26 away to look at a bunch of guitars I can see for free at Manny's on 48st.
Honestly, what are the odds that Bloomberg knows that Walk on the Wild Side is written about a tranny?
The RRHHOF has some pretty awesome stuff to see if you're a music fan, but wow, that's a rip-off. It's $22 to get into the main one in Cleveland, which I could swear is like double what I paid when I was there 7 years ago.
26 bucks? ridiculous.