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August 8, 2001

Exhibit to Trace Teen Idols to Include Christina

Christina's outfit from
her first album featured
at Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Exhibit

A major exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will trace teen idols from Frank Sinatra to 'N Sync. 'We're going to look at the phenomenon from the past to the present,' said Jim Henke, the Hall's chief curator. The exhibit likely will span from the early days of Sinatra in the 1940s to current youth sensations 'such as the Backstreet Boys and Christina Aguilera,' Henke said.

The exhibit is scheduled to open in Spring 2002. The museum already has obtained memorabilia from several teen idols, including David Cassidy, Debbie Gibson, New Kids on the Block, Neil Sedaka and Bobby Sherman. Memories and souvenirs from teenyboppers themselves will be 'a big part' of the exhibit, Henke said.

Visitors to the museum's website can contribute their own memories
and celebrity encounters via email: Share your teen idol memories

The museum hopes the exhibit will draw several generations of fans. 'There will be something for everyone,' Henke said. 'Kids will be able to come with their parents or even their grandparents. Everybody had teen idols at some point.'

Keeping the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the contemporary mainstream was the intention of James Henke, who became the Hall of Fame's curator in 1994. Critics of the musuem at its outset railed against the idea of imprisoning popular music in such a static setting. They claimed the freewheeling essence of Rock n Roll would fizzle within the mausoleum of corporate sponsorship. Determined to prove critics wrong, Curator Henke began creating exhibits that celebrated contemporary rock and pop culture.

Christina shows off her
2000 Grammy for
Best New Artist and her
Versace gown with
butterfly back inset

The first exhibit was mounted last summer. Entitled 'On the Charts', it focused on the teen pop phenomenon, and included such items as the red catsuit Britney Spears wore in her video 'Oops!…I Did It Again,' clothes from 'N Sync's 'It's Gonna Be Me' video, costumes from the Backstreet Boys' Millennium tour, and the outfits Christina wore on the cover of her self-titled debut album and at the 2000 Grammy Awards.

'On the Charts' has since been expanded to reflect the dizzying diversity that rules today's contemporary Top 40 and Hot 100 charts. Artists now featured in the exhibit include: Madonna, 3 Doors Down, Rage Against the Machine, Destiny's Child, Everclear, No Doubt and Nine Days. According to Curator Henke, 'On the Charts' mirrors an average day at MTV's Total Request Live, where fans will see that while hip hop and teen pop get the lion's share of contemporary press, music charting today crosses ethnic, social, and stylistic boundaries that even ten years ago were considered impenetrable.

More about 'On the Charts' exhibit

- A. Michelle and James Henke with
reports from Associated Press

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