Controversial interview remarks by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner have led to his removal from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors.

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Wenner was removed from the board after a New York Times interview regarding his new book, The Masters, which features interviews with seven notable figures in rock music. The lineup includes Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Jerry Garcia and Pete Townsend.

Asked by the New York Times why he confined the book’s interviews to white males, Wenner said “it just fell together that way.”

He then said that none of the women he considered were “as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”