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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 9 April 2016
N.W.A. joins rock hall with
4 rockers from the 1970s
In this April 5, 2016 photo, members of Cheap Trick, from left, DAVID BAUDER producers and a billionaire FM rock hits like “fly Like an
Robin Zander, Daxx Nielsen, Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson AP Entertainment Writer with a high-tech head- Eagle,” ‘’Jet Airliner” and
pose for a portrait in New York to promote their new album, NEW YORK (AP) — Los phone company. Ice Cube “Jungle Love.”
“Bang Zoom Crazy…Hello.” The band will perform with former Angeles rappers N.W.A., moves between music and Chicago was known for a
member Bun E. Carlos at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induc- whose legacy gained a successful acting career. brassy, jazz-rock fusion in its
tion ceremony on Friday. new life with the hit movie Named for one of N.W.A.’s early days and settled into
“Straight Outta Compton,” best-known songs, the a comfortable career pen-
Associated Press join the Rock and Roll Hall movie “Straight Outta ning pop hits. Among their
of Fame on Friday with a Compton” told the band’s favorites were “Saturday in
quartet of 1970s era rock story and was one of the the Park,” ‘’25 or 6 to 4,” ‘’If
acts. biggest box office winners You Leave Me Now” and
Cheap Trick, Chicago, of 2015. “Does Anyone Really Know
Deep Purple and Steve Mill- What Time it Is?”
er are also being honored Deep Purple’s induction The pride of Rockford, Illi-
at a ceremony in Brooklyn’s was hailed by heavy metal nois, Cheap Trick’s career
Barclays Center. fans. Yet they enter the hall soared in the late 1970s
N.W.A.’s rough-hewn tales amid some hard feelings: when a live album record-
of life on the streets tilted the band’s current mem- ed before a gleeful Japa-
the balance toward West bers refused to perform nese audience added ex-
Coast rap in the late 1980s with Ritchie Blackmore, the citement to tracks like “Sur-
on songs like “F--- the Po- guitarist who came up with render” and “I Want You to
lice,” ‘’Boyz-N-The Hood” the signature riff for “Smoke Want Me.” The band just
and “Straight Outta Comp- on the Water.” released a new disc on the
ton.” Miller came out of a blues hot Big Machine label.
Following the act’s break- background in San Fran- HBO is filming Friday’s show
up, Dr. Dre became one cisco and later became and will air highlights later
of music’s most in-demand a dependable author of this spring.
Novelist’s life a ‘whirlwind’
since essay about gang rape
This undated photo provided about 50 friends and fans kept a crucial connec-
by courtesy of Simon & Schus- at a Barnes & Noble book- tion secret, acknowledg-
ter shows author Jessica Knoll. shop that the response to ing that she had dodged
her essay had been intense questions about Ani’s rape,
Associated Press and overwhelmingly posi- questions raised in part by
tive. “This has been, to put the book’sdedication: “To
HILLEL ITALIE it mildly, a whirlwind week,” all the TifAni FaNellis of the
AP National Writer she said, adding that she world, I know.” “I’ve been
NEW YORK (AP) — A nov- had been thinking about a running and I’ve been
elist who last week posted quote by W.H. Auden, “Art ducking and I’ve been
an open letter saying the is born of humiliation.” dodging because I’m
gang rape her character “This book was born of my scared,” Knoll wrote March
endured in the best-selling humiliation,” she told the 29 in an essay titled “What
“Luckiest Girl Alive” was audience. “This book is my I Know,” which appeared
based on her own experi- pain, and this book is my on LennyLetter.com, a
ence in high school said power, after years of pow- website co-managed by
Wednesday that the past erlessness.” Lena Dunham.
few days have been a “Luckiest Girl Alive” was Knoll was greeted warmly
“whirlwind.” published last year and Wednesday and read a
The 32-year-old Knoll, be- caught the attention not brief passage from the
ginning a tour to promote just of the general pub- novel about Ani’s deter-
the book’s paperback re- lic but of Reese Wither- mination to leave high
lease, told a gathering of spoon, who is producing school behind. To the au-
a planned film adapta- thor’s surprise and relief,
tion, with Knoll writing the she received few questions
screenplay. about her essay. Audience
Parallels between Knoll’s members asked instead
life and the heroine of her about her favorite authors
novel, Ani FaNelli (or TifAni (Gillian Flynn, Donna Tartt,
FaNelli), were clear from the Flannery O’Connor), her
start. Both grew up in the writing process and her
suburbs, attended private work on the screenplay.
school in Philadelphia and “I do want to talk about
worked in magazines (Knoll the essay, but I don’t want
is a former editor at Cosmo- it to drown out the book,”
politan). But Knoll had long she said after the reading.
