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    John Sykes, new chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, pledges diversity, populism

    by Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Sep 27, 2019 4 minutes

    The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will begin a new era on Jan. 1 with a new chairman, iHeartMedia President of entertainment enterprises John Sykes. He was selected by the board of directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation to take the reins after being nominated by current chairman Jann Wenner, the 73-year-old longtime editor of Rolling Stone magazine who announced this week that he will step down from the organization he co-founded in 1983.

    Sykes, part of the original management team at MTV and VH1 before he joined iHeartMedia, becomes just the third chairman of the Rock Hall, following in the footsteps of

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