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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 14 december 2018

Janet Jackson, Def Leppard, Nicks join Rock Hall of Fame

By DAVID BAUDER about whether Radiohead
Associated Press will shrug its collective
NEW YORK (AP) — Janet shoulder as an inductees.
Jackson joins her brother The English band seemed
Michael and the Jackson like generic grunge rockers
5 as members of the Rock on their initial hit “Creep,”
and Roll Hall of Fame, earn- but with the album “OK
ing induction on Thursday Computer” and beyond
along with Stevie Nicks and have become consistent
the top fan vote-getter, sonic pioneers. Among its
Def Leppard. rock hall class, Radiohead
Radiohead, the Cure, Roxy has the most impact on
Music and the Zombies will the current music scene.
also be ushered in next In an interview with Rolling
spring at the 34th induction Stone earlier this year, Ra-
ceremony. It will be held diohead’s Jonny Green-
March 29 at Barclays Cen- wood said “I don’t care”
ter in Brooklyn. when asked about the
Jackson’s induction comes rock hall. Bandmate Ed
after her third time as nomi- O’Brien said, “culturally, I
nee and many saw it as don’t understand it. I think
overdue, given her prowess it might be a quintessen-
as a hitmaker with “All For tially American thing.” The
You,” ‘’That’s the Way Love Cure and frontman Robert
Goes,” ‘’Nasty,” ‘’Together In this July 8, 2018 file photo, Janet Jackson performs at the 2018 Essence Festival in New Orleans. Smith resist their initial label
Again” and “What Have Jackson will join Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, Radiohead, the Cure, Roxy Music and the Zombies as as goth rockers, champi-
You Done For Me Lately.” new members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ons of fans who like black
Her career has suffered Associated Press makeup, black clothes
from the fallout after the Hall of Fame. I am truly hon- historians, industry profes- band that means anything and darkly romantic songs.
infamous 2004 Super Bowl ored and I am happy to be sionals and past winners in the world, starting from They have a durable cata-
appearance where her in there with my brothers.” in deciding who gets hon- the Beatles and the Stones log of hits, including “Friday
bare breast was briefly ex- It will be Nicks’ second in- ored. The British heavy met- and any artist that influ- I’m in Love,” ‘’Boys Don’t
posed. Jackson became duction into the rock hall, al band with a pop sheen enced them — your Chuck Cry,” ‘’Pictures of You” and
eligible for the rock hall in since she’s already there were huge sellers in the Berrys, your Little Richards, “Let’s Go to Bed.”
2007 and wasn’t nominat- as a member of Fleetwood 1980s on the back of songs etc., etc. — then of course Roxy Music came out of
ed until 2016. Mac. She launched a solo like “Photograph” and you want to be in. Why the 1970s progressive rock
The Roots’ Questlove, in a career in 1981 with her duet “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” wouldn’t you?” scene and had hits with
social media post earlier with the late Tom Petty, Frontman Joe Elliott said Def Leppard, Nicks and “Love is the Drug” and
this year, said her exclusion “Stop Draggin’ My Heart he was initially ambivalent Roxy Music were voted “More Than This.” Dapper
had been “highly criminal.” Around.” Other hits fol- toward the honor until Jon in during their first years member Bryan Ferry had a
He cited the influence of lowed, including “Edge of Bon Jovi suggested it would as nominees. Other 2019 successful solo career and
her 1986 album “Control,” Seventeen,” ‘’Stand Back” change his life. nominees who didn’t make Brian Eno has been an influ-
which he said set off the and “I Will Run to You.” “When I look at the list the cut included LL Cool ential producer.
New Jack Swing trend. Def Leppard earned more of who’s in, it’s just obvi- J, Devo, Rage Against the The heyday of British rock-
“This was no one’s kid sis- than half a million votes ous you’d want to be in Machine, MC5, John Prine, ers the Zombies’ career
ter,” he wrote. from fans, which are incor- that club, isn’t it?” he told Todd Rundgren and Kraft- was the 1960s, with big sell-
Jackson said on Thursday: porated into more than Billboard earlier this year. werk. ers “She’s Not There” and
“Thank you Rock and Roll 1,000 ballots from artists, “When you think that every There’s some question “Time of the Season.” q

‘Pandemic’ rings warning bell about gene-editing technology

By WAKA TSUNODA seemingly healthy young challenge as a “diversion” medical bills. Realizing that
Associated Press woman with a transplanted from his many personal “something weird is afoot,”
“Pandemic” (Putnam), by heart boards the subway in problems. To name a few, Stapleton drives out to Do-
Robin Cook New York City but suffers his daughter has just been ver and receives a warm
When there’s a scientific abrupt respiratory distress diagnosed with autism and welcome from its owner,
breakthrough, Robin Cook and dies before she reach- his mother-in-law is blam- Wei Zhao, a Chinese bil-
doesn’t just stand up and es her destination. ing his genealogy for it. His lionaire businessman who
cheer. He uses his fertile Jack Stapleton, a medical wife, Laurie Montgomery, holds a double Ph.D. in mo-
imagination and writes a examiner who appears in has unexpectedly been lecular biology and genet-
novel about its possible 10 of Cook’s previous nov- named the chief medical ics. Wei, a body-building
perils. In his latest medical els, does an autopsy. He examiner, making her his enthusiast who admires
thriller, “Pandemic,” Cook suspects that an unknown, boss both at home and at Arnold Schwarzenegger,
dramatizes the scary side of flu-like virus is responsible work. Stapleton’s investiga- makes an intriguing villain.
a miracle molecule called for her death. He is duty- tion reveals that a hospital The novel also offers an in-
“CRISPR/Cas9,” which can bound to identify and in New York performed the triguing look at the subter-
easily be custom-tailored stop the virus before it can woman’s heart transplant ranean world of medical
to seek out and alter genes cause a pandemic and kill at the request of the Dover examiners, but “Pandem- This cover image released by
in humans and animals. millions. Valley Hospital in New Jer- ic” goes far beyond just Putnam shows “Pandemic,” a
The story begins when a Stapleton welcomes the sey. Dover also paid all her entertainment.q novel by Robin Cook.
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