#402 - John Sykes, Chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Writing Dolly Parton a Note to Get Her to Accept Nomination + How Musicians Get into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Co-Founding MTV and VH1 and His Influence on Music on TV and Radio

Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast

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Music, Music Interviews

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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John Sykes, the chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Co-Founder of MTV and VH1 and the current President of iHeartMedia Entertainment Enterprises, joined Bobby Bones to talk about his incredible career that has made a lasting impact on music on television. He explains the process of who gets voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the note he wrote Dolly Parton to convince her to accept her nomination. John also shares how he got his start as one of the founding people at MTV and how he later created VH1 and 'Behind The Music,' and Pop-Up videos! We treat this episode as if it were a Pop-Up Video episode with fun facts behind all of the artists John mentions! He also details the importance of knowing the story being the music, what his role at iHeart now entails and more!

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0:00.0	When Dolly got in, she turned it down originally saying,
0:09.6	I don't want to block another woman who should get in.
0:12.3	I'm country, I'm not rock and roll.
0:14.0	So I wrote her a note. She said, oh, I get it now.
0:17.6	The answer is still no. You ought to do a better job telling people who you are.
0:23.2	We're going to do this episode a bit different.
0:25.6	It's episode 402 with John Sykes, who works alongside me,
0:31.0	I mean, over me, actually, at I Heart Radio, but he is the chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
0:36.7	That's why we initiated this conversation because obviously this is a music podcast,
0:42.0	but I'm going to tell you, I learned so much about John and I've known John for a long time.
0:46.4	I didn't know he's one of the people that started VH1.
0:47.9	Okay, look, the fourth gum for the music industry.
0:50.1	Crazy, this guy's stories.
0:52.6	You're going to hear a lot of different stuff.
0:55.0	We'll talk Hall of Fame. We'll talk I Heart Radio. We'll talk VH1,
0:59.5	how he started that. He was part of the group that started MTV.
1:02.0	But because we talk about pop-up videos,
1:04.6	we're going to do this episode like a pop-up video.
1:06.5	Yeah, audio wise.
1:08.0	We've never done this before like this.
1:09.7	So you'll hear little pop-ups throughout the episode with facts as we talk to John.
1:13.5	So you have some background, but also we just thought it was funny if we did a pop-up video episode.
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