The Miller Brewing Co. may know beer, but it's downright ignorant on the subject of rock and roll.
Whoever dreamed up the idea to celebrate rock's 50th anniversary with eight commemorative beer cans featuring Rolling Stone covers of all white stars needs to be banished to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A history lesson is in order. You can't whitewash rock and roll.
Undeniably talented, Miller's eight -- Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, Blondie, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper and Joe Walsh -- have a place in rock celebrity. That's somewhere far behind the long list of black musicians whose big voices and wild guitar licks ignited a whole new sound in American music. [...]
| That's the first half of "PALE ALE: Miller beer's music tribute omits legends of color" (via gomigirl, who also pointed to James Montgomery's MTV News article "Miller Beer's '50th Anniversary Of Rock' Missing One Thing: Black Artists," the Associated Press (via the Hometown Channel) article "It's Miller Time -- With A Single Shade Of Color" and Juliet Williams' Associated Press (via Duluth Superior) article "Brewing controversy"
Update: "Miller Brewing Issues Response to Rock 'N Roll Commemorative Cans Issue"
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