LIFESTYLE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013 Music38 & Movies Rogers, Bare inducted into Country Hall of Fame enny Rogers, Bobby Bare and the Cheap Trick song would come after it. He late “Cowboy” Jack Clement - three was that guy who was everywhere.” Kmen whose influence still ripples Bare scored dozens of hits like “Dee- across the surface of modern music - are troit City” and “How I Got to Memphis,” now members of the Country Music Hall mining the work of left-of-center Nash- of Fame. The three were saluted by stars ville songwriters like Tom T. Hall, Kris Garth Brooks, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Kristofferson and Shel Silverstein. Though Harris, Barry Gibb, John Prine and others he was never really part of the so-called during a ceremony Sunday at the newly outlaw movement in country music, he expanded Country Music Hall of Fame was close friends with many artists who and Museum. Each of the three inductees were and his insistence on controlling had a profound effect on music in his own his own musical choices was an inspira- way, and one could argue each deserved tion for others like Waylon Jennings and a place among the genre’s greatest names Willie Nelson. “He has been responsible long ago. for a lot of things that have happened in “I’m flattered, I’m honored and I’m ner- the country music business,” singer John vous,” Rogers said before the ceremony. “I Anderson said. mean I didn’t know that I would be. Very “I remember one day I was talking to few things make me nervous. But I’ve nev- my old friend Waylon, and I asked Waylon, er done this before, so it’s pretty exciting. ‘Man, what caused you to pack up and What I’ve realized is that success is not a move to Nashville?’ He said, ‘Hoss, Bobby happening, it’s a journey. So as I run back Bare had a whole lot to do with it.’” Known through my history and look at all the also for his sense of humor, the 78-year- things that happened to me and how I old Bare answered characteristically when got to where I am, this is like the culmina- asked what being inducted means: “It tion of my career because I’ve done pretty means that I will forever be referred to as Country music star Kenny Rogers thanks the audience at the ceremony for the much everything else. And I think without a hall of famer. It sounds real good.” Clem- 2013 inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in Nashville, this it would have been incomplete.” ent’s resume as producer, songwriter, Tenn. –AP photos Rogers helped push country music far- performer, inspiration, raconteur and bon ther into pop music territory than it had vivant is too lengthy to list, but he veered Alison Clement daughter of the late “Cowboy” ever been. He could go deep country with all across popular music over the last half Jack Clement tips a hat in honor of her father at songs like “The Gambler,” “Ruby, Don’t century. the ceremony for the 2013 inductions into the Take Your Love to Town” and “Lucille,” but He was Sam Phillips’ first producer- Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday. he also had crossover pop hits like “Islands engineer at Sun Records in Memphis. He in the Stream” and “Lady,” foreshadow- wrote some of Johnny Cash’s early hits, ing today’s more pop-friendly country putting those unforgettable mariachi sounds. Rogers remains a popular figure horns on “Ring of Fire,” and was a repeated in the country music world. Alison Krauss touchstone for The Man in Black. He said of his induction, “Justice has been helped Jerry Lee Lewis shape his proto- done,” and Garth Brooks gives him credit rock approach and was at the soundboard for taking him on the road on his first for the recording of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ major tour as an opening act: “If there was Goin’ On.” Also among his many career an entertainer university, when it comes highlights was the discovery of Charley to Entertainer 101, I can vouch firsthand Pride and their 13-album association. that Kenny Rogers would be the professor Clement found out in February that he of that class.” would be inducted into the hall of fame, Darius Rucker recalled a lifetime of about five months before he passed away being a fan of the 75-year-old Rogers in August from liver cancer at 82. “We do before singing “Lucille.” “The thing I’ve have a message from Cowboy,” hall of always thought was crazy as a kid was he fame director and CEO Kyle Young said. was about the only guy where you flip “He says, ‘By all means, relax.’” Two trum- through the channels and you’d hear a peters then walked on stage and played Kenny Rogers song and a Buck Owens the horn intro to “Ring of Fire.”—AP Country music star Bobby Bare was inducted by Tom T Hall, right, after song,” Rucker said before the ceremony. he was presented with his County Music Hall of Fame medallion and “And then you’d flip to another channel plaque at the ceremony for the 2013 inductions into the Country Music and you’d hear a Kenny Rogers song and a Hall of Fame on Sunday. Doctor convicted in Country music star Charley Pride uncovers a plaque of “Cowboy” Jack Clement after Michael Jackson death paying tribute to him at the ceremony for the 2013 inductions into the Country leaves prison Music Hall of Fame. ichael Jackson’s personal physician, convicted of Mmanslaughter for adminis- tering a lethal dose of anesthetic to the pop singer, was released from a Los Angeles prison yesterday after Hobbit serving half of his four-year sentence. Conrad Murray was released to his representatives, Los Angeles County fans to get sneak Sheriff spokesman Steve Whitmore said shortly after Murray left the county jail. The release came under a peek at Smaug event California state plan to reduce prison overcrowding. Murray’s six-week trial grabbed global attention after “Billie Jean” singer Jackson, preparing for a series of comeback concerts in London, died unexpectedly in 2009 at age 50. File photo shows Michael Jack- From left, director Jeff Tremaine, screenwriter and actor Spike Jonze, actor Jackson Nicoll, front, Johnny Knoxville and producer Van Tofler, attend a Reporters waited outside the jail son’s former doctor Conrad Murray sits in a courtroom dur- special screening of “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” at the Sunshine Land- for Murray, but he was whisked out ing his involuntary manslaugh- mark Theater on Monday, Oct 21, 2013, in New York.—AP through a back exit away from view. ter trial in Los Angeles.—AP A few Jackson fans were also were present, one playing music from his Wass said ahead of her client’s release. 1982 album “Thriller,” the top-selling AEG Live was cleared earlier this album of all time with more than 50 obbit fans will get a sneak peek at the second month, in a civil lawsuit brought by film of the trilogy—“The Desolation of Smaug”— million copies sold. Jackson’s death ‘Bad Grandpa’ Jackson’s children and mother, of neg- after director Peter Jackson announced a global prompted an outpouring of support H ligently hiring the cardiologist. The live presentation next month. Cinemas in London, New for the “King of Pop” after years of bad jury in that case found Murray had York, Los Angeles and Wellington will be satellite-linked tops N American box office publicity, stemming from his increas- acted outside of the role for which he on November 4 for an event including a question and ingly bizarre behavior and a child mo- answer session with cast members, Jackson said on his was hired. Wass has said the physician acky Jackass comedy “Bad Grandpa” elbowed space flick “Gravity” out lestation trial in which he was acquit- Facebook page. The time difference means it will be No- wants to practice medicine again after of the top spot at the North American box office, preliminary week- ted. Today, he is the top-earning dead vember 5 for Kiwi fans. Jackson did not say who would his release from prison. Murray’s li- end data showed Sunday. The Johnny Knoxville road movie about an celebrity, according to Forbes. be involved, but the official Hobbit website yesterday W 86-year-old granddad and his eight-year-old grandson, netted $32 million and cense to practice has been suspended said cast members would include Orlando Bloom, Evan- Prosecutors successfully argued the top spot on its first days in theaters. “Gravity”—with Oscar winners Sandra in California, Nevada and Texas, each geline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans and Andy Serkis. that Grenada-born Murray, who was Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts adrift in space after a devastating of the states where he had been able Additional cinemas will be set up in select locations hired by concert promoter AEG Live accident—scored $20.3 million, taking its gross takings to $199.8 million since to work prior to Jackson’s death. His worldwide where fans can gather to watch the event as Jackson’s general practitioner, its premiere. license in Hawaii lapsed in 2010. live. It will also be streamed on the Internet. Jackson, was grossly negligent in administer- The third place finisher, “Captain Phillips,” based on a true story and starring Murray has kept his name in the a New Zealander, said further details on locations Tom Hanks as a cargo ship captain captured by Somali pirates, earned $11.8 ing propofol, a drug that was used and timings would be released in coming days on the headlines during his time in prison by million.