Because Cleveland Rocks, it makes a great home for the Hall, a place that honors the innovators and the movers-and-shakers of the Rock'n'Roll Age. There are bad points about fossilizing the medium like this, but radio programmers and bad rock crits have been doing the same thing for years, anyway. It's great to see recognition for people (Ruth Brown, Johnny Otis, Tom Donahue, Jerry Wexler...) left out by the agendas of the suits.

http://rockhall.com/