“Why no Joni Mitchell, for example, since she surely is one of the great singer-songwriters, most original thinkers and most brilliant lyricists of the rock era? Wenner dismissed the suggestion.

She “was not a philosopher of rock’n’roll … She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test.”

Other women, say, Madonna, Erykah Badu, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner?

“Just none of them were articulate enough on this intellectual level,” Wenner explained.”