LIFESTYLE38 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013 MUSIC & MOVIES This 1991 file photo shows the band Nirvana, from left, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, and Kurt Cobain. File image released by Starpix shows, from left, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer of KISS as the band arrives at SiriusXM offices to promote their latest release ‘Monster,’ in New York. —AP photos Nirvana, KISS among 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees irvana, the influential Seattle grunge KISS shocked the music world in the mid- bines music with philanthropy and humani- band founded by the late Kurt Cobain, 1970s with its outlandish black-and-white tarian causes. Linda Ronstadt, known as the Nand the flamboyant 1970s rockers makeup, racy costumes, hard-pounding “First Lady of Rock,” was a mainstay of the from KISS were among six new inductees to tunes and elaborate shows. Songs such as 1970s rock scene with hits including “You’re the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the organiza- the trademark “Rock and Roll All Nite” No Good” in 1975. The 67-year-old revealed tion said yesterday. British singers and song- helped define a hard rock-and-shock style this year that she could no longer sing due to writers Peter Gabriel and Cat Stevens, folk- Parkinson’s disease. pop singer Linda Ronstadt and rock and soul Daryl Hall and John Oates broke out in duo Hall and Oates completed the list of 1976 with the hit “Rich Girl” and ruled the performer inductees to the prestigious Hall charts in the 1980s with bouncy melodies of Fame, chosen from 16 nominees. “Kiss on My List” and “Private Eyes.”The The induction ceremony will take place in inductees were chosen by more than 700 vot- New York City on April 10, the Rock and Roll ers from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Foundation said in a statement. Foundation, but fans were also allowed to Nirvana, formed by singer and guitarist cast votes online for the artists they believe Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in the late were the most deserving of induction. Three 1980s, brought grunge music to the main- of the top five artists from the fan ballot will stream and was considered the flagship be inducted in 2014. band of Generation X with songs like “Smells “This year’s Hall of Fame Inductees really Like Teen Spirit” and “Come As You Are.” capture the passion of the fans,” said Joel Cobain committed suicide in 1994 at the Peresman, President and CEO of the Rock and age of 27 and the band broke up after just Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. The E Street three full-length studio albums in a seven- Band, the group behind singer Bruce year career, during which Nirvana sold 75 Springsteen, will be inducted through the million records worldwide, making it one of File photo, Dave Grohl, left, poses with Nirvana bandmate Krist Novoselic at the premiere Award for Musical Excellence, the foundation the best-selling acts in music history. of the documentary film ‘Sound City,’ in Los Angeles. said. The late music entrepreneur who man- Nirvana was chosen as an inductee in its first that continues to thrive today. Peter Gabriel, Islam, Ronstadt to rock the hall aged The Beatles, Brian Epstein, and Andrew year of eligibility. 63, was lead vocalist and flautist for the pro- Cat Stevens, the former stage name for Loog Oldham who managed The Rolling The Cleveland-based Hall of Fame estab- File photo shows Yusuf Islam, previously gressive rock band Genesis, a Rock and Roll Yusuf Islam, shook up 1970s rock with his dis- Stones will be inducted with the Ahmet lishes that an artist or group must have Cat Stevens, during a sound check for his Hall of Fame 2010 inductee, before pursuing tinctive voice and compositions such as “Wild Ertegun Awards for lifetime achievement, released their debut album or single at least concert at the El Rey Theater in Los a solo career that produced hits including World” and “Moon Shadow.” He later convert- named after the late founder of Atlantic 25 years earlier to be eligible. Angeles. “Sledgehammer.” ed to Islam and today at 65 years of age com- Records. — Reuters Anchorman 2review Beyonce sells 617,000 albums in 3 days on iTunes Ferrell sequel more eyonce’s surprise album has sold sur- prisingly well: Her fifth solo effort Bsold more than 600,000 units in its first three days, setting a record for first- week domestic digital sales. Beyonce’s self- sketchy-sketch-sketch than a movie titled album was released early Friday morning exclusively on iTunes unbe- knownst to the public. Apple said Monday hen Zucker, Abrams and Zucker created reader Ron Burgundy, and as the film begins, it Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and barely-functioning that the album sold 617,213 in its US the hilarious (and influential) “Airplane!” looks like he and wife Veronica Corningstone weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell) - and pre- iTunes Store. It sold 828,773 international- Wthey filled the screen with a rapid-fire rat- (Christina Applegate) have it all - they’ve left San pares to take New York by storm again. Upon ly. “You have to be innovative. The Internet a-tat of sight gags, puns, parodies, absurdities and Diego for New York City, where they co-anchor the arrival, however, Ron learns that tough-as-nails net- has changed the game. You’ve got to look pratfalls. Yet underneath it all, the writer-directors weekend network news and are raising a son in a work exec Linda (Meagan Good) has relegated him at how to address the fact that most maintained a skeletal story on which to hang all sumptuous brownstone. to the graveyard shift while prime time goes to the artists’ albums leak before their release their wackiness, even if they’d lifted the plot from When the legendary Mack Harken (Harrison glossy and charismatic Jack Lime (James Marsden). plans,” said Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, the the vintage, mostly forgotten disaster movie “Zero Ford, given little to do or say that’s particularly fun- “Anchorman 2” has a surfeit of funny ideas, from general manager of Beyonce’s production Hour!” ny) steps down from the network’s main anchor Ron single-handedly inventing almost every awful company Parkwood Entertainment, who With “Anchorman” and especially with its sequel, desk, Ron thinks it’s a big break for him and his idea in cable news (car-chase coverage, knee-jerk released the album alongside Columbia “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” director wife, but he’s only half-right: She gets the gig, and patriotism, weathermen standing in the middle of Records. Adam McKay, co-writer Will Ferrell and a cast of tal- he gets the boot. Drunk, self-pitying and back in hurricanes) to clever tweaking of the chronology “Look at where your opportunities can ented comedians bring all the rat-a-tat you could San Diego introducing dolphin shows at Sea World, (it’s supposed to be 1980, but the movie subtly lie and that’s kind of how we approached ever want without bothering to create any kind of Ron gets another shot: a millionaire tycoon is start- throws in anachronistic references to Trivial Pursuit it,” she continued in an interview Monday. structure. And while you might not think a frame- ing a 24-hour cable news network, and the startup and “Ghostbusters”). Audiences who have spent “We had a multitude of things we were try- Beyonce performs onstage at her ‘Mrs work is important to comedy, it’s the sort of thing wants Ron. the last nine years quoting the original will no ing to accomplish, some things we were Carter Show World Tour 2013,’ on you don’t notice until it isn’t there. Ron reunites his usual gang of idiots - sports- doubt come away with a whole arsenal of new trying to avoid, and this turned out to be Friday at the United Center in Ferrell reprises his role as idiotic and vain news- caster Champ Kind (David Koechner), ladies’ man lines and situations to add to their repertoire. the right perfect plan for us.” Beyonce sur- Chicago, Ill. — AP prised fans with the release of the album, Joke-joke-joke which features 14 songs and 17 videos, “Drunk In Love” and “XO,” co-produced by With all the talent on hand, and such a rich and social media website exploded with Ryan Tedder, will be launched as singles. comic set-up, I can’t help wishing that “Anchorman mentions of the singer and her new music. She said Beyonce came up with the idea to 2” weren’t so flimsy. It’s a constant barrage of joke- In three hours, it sold 80,000 units, and the launch a “visual album.” “She said to me joke-joke, but they’re all gags that take place in the build-up continued over the weekend. one day, ‘I really want to do a visual album. moment and are immediately shoved aside for the I want to do all the videos and I want to next one. Nothing builds. There are no setups for Keeping the album secret put them out.’ I looked at her and I said, later payoffs. “It really wasn’t about making a hit ‘Whoa, wow, oh my God,’” she recalled. “We In a five- or ten-minute comedy sketch, that’s record or chasing what sounds like today’s all said to her, ‘Wow, you’re crazy, but OK, perfectly fine, but it’s not a formula for the long music for singles,” explained Callahan- let’s think about that.’ And we really kind of haul of a feature.