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GRANDMASTER FLASH ROCK HALL SCANDAL?: Columnist says British group Dave Clark Five actually received more votes.
*Less than 48 hours after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five as its first ever hip hop act, there is talk that the group did not actually earn its fifth place vote.
Fox411.com columnist Roger Friedman quotes sources who say British group The Dave Clark Five actually placed fifth in the final voting of the nominating committee, not Grandmaster Flash.
But the final count was ignored by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, who recently appointed himself chairman of the Foundation after the death of Ahmet Ertegun, according to Friedman.
R.E.M., Van Halen, The Ronettes and Patti Smith received the most amount of votes, with Grandmaster Flash finishing fifth when the votes were counted on the first date ballots were due in to the Rock Hall office, Friedman writes.
"But when all the ballots were counted a few days later, the DC5 had pulled ahead," writes Friedman. "Wenner decided to ignore that and stick with the earlier tally."
A source told Friedman: "We begged Jann to allow all six acts to be inducted. But he insisted that he couldn't because there wouldn't be enough time. He wanted to have Aretha Franklin come and perform in memory of Ahmet Ertegun."
"Jann went back to a previous ballot instead of taking the final vote as the last word," the source continued. "He used a technicality about the day votes were due in. In reality, The Dave Clark Five got six more votes than Grandmaster Flash. But he felt we couldn't go another year without a rap act."
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