Inducted members: Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey Founding members who weren’t inducted: Keith Moon (died: 1978); John Entwistle (died: 2002) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 1990 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award: 2001
will receive the Kennedy Center Honors in December is the latest sign that that the Kennedy Center has finally gotten the memo – In music, sometimes people do their best and most lasting work in groups.
The Kennedy Center Honors was set up in 1978 to honor individuals. It wasn’t until 2008 that the Center recognized its first musical group:. Before that, they had singled out the most famous member of a group or duo for honors – Paul Simon , Tina Turner , Smokey Robinson , Diana Ross and Brian Wilson .
Even after 2008, the Kennedy Center often opted to single out a member of a group rather than honor the entire group. The Beatles should certainly have been honored by the Kennedy Center, but the Center selected Paul McCartney for a solo honor in 2002. Other group members who were honored as individuals instead of as part of the groups with which they first achieved fame are Carlos Santana , Sting , Mavis Staples , Gloria Estefan , Lionel Richie , Cher , Gladys Knight and Barry Gibb . In some cases, it made more sense to honor the individuals. In other cases, it made less sense. Even Barry Gibb would doubtless say that his best and most lasting work was done in the Bee Gees alongside his brothers Robin and Maurice.
Both of Gibb’s brothers had died by 2023, and the Kennedy Center generally doesn’t honor people posthumously — though it made an exception for Glenn Frey, who had died by the time thewere honored in December 2016. , as the Kennedy Center did in 2016, without honoring its mastermind Maurice White is hard to fathom. Likewise, to honor Grateful Dead without recognizing its principal songwriter and lead guitarist Jerry Garcia just seems off.
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