Put rock music in a museum and watch it die

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 16, 2008| Author: DAVID LISTER | Copyright information

The Week in Arts

One debate that is likely to gather pace in the coming months is what should be in the rock music museum planned for London's O2 centre. They don't, of course, call it a rock music museum. They are canny enough to know that the word museum will alienate customers. They call it the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. But rock music museum is still what it will be.

One of its advocates, Emma Townshend, has written in The Times praising the idea and lamenting the lack of docu...

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