Here are two petitions which both currenly has over 5,000 siggies on it. If it holds any flack? Who knows. Here is the first link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Kretch07And here's a second one:
http://www.petitiononline.com/monkees1/I don't know if it's the same petition. It's the same website, but different names at the end (Kretch07 and monkees1)?
I also found this article about Jann Wenner in a Monkees forum:
"THE MONKEES star PETER TORK has blasted music mogul
Jann Wenner for keeping the Daydream Believer
hitmakers out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Tork claims the respected Rolling Stone magazine
editor and publisher has the power to veto acts that
merit induction into the Cleveland musical museum -
and he hates The Monkees.
Bitter Tork tells Newsday, "The only person... holding
a grudge is Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone. He has never
written a gracious word (about us)." Tork has spoken
out about the snub after watching groups like the Sex
Pistols and Run-DMC, who have covered Monkees tunes,
get inducted to the Hall of Fame in recent years.
R.E.M. star Michael Stipe offered the guitarist some
hope when he told Rolling Stone the Monkees were more
important to him than the Beatles, reportedly
stating he would refuse an induction if it meant
getting into the Hall of Fame before Tork and co.
But R.E.M. were inducted into the Cleveland museum in
March (07).
Tork claims Wenner's concerns about the group stem
from long-forgotten claims The Monkees weren't for
real, and were nothing more than a band created for a
TV show.
He adds, "I've not heard the slightest murmur about
The Monkees being fake (lately). Everybody's forgotten
it, except Wenner. He's been vicious."
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