Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection

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Cleveland-area freelance writer Adams has left out little in this musical history of the port city, home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Her aptly titled book opens with rock's roots in the 1950s and chronicles how Cleveland's North Coast radio stations have been making and breaking national and regional artists for decades. Of course, it was Cleveland jock Alan Freed who played rhythm and blues on his Moondog program and renamed it rock'n'roll. Adams also documents the prominent Cleveland clubs of the past 40 years, where bands rose to national status and/or evaporated. Profiled are both the winners (e.g., Trent Reznor, Joe Walsh, David Allen Coe, and the Dead Boys) and the losers, who are always more fun to read about. The best case is local sensation Michael Stanley (he wrote the foreword), who had all the makings of a Bruce Springsteen but could never break out nationally despite selling hundreds of thousands of records on the North Coast. At 612 pages, the book will lag for readers with no interest in radio. But if considered as a reference (no other works have this focus), it provides ample lessons on why Cleveland rocks. Recommended for larger libraries, voracious rock readers, and major Joe Walsh fans. Eric Hahn, Fargo, ND Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780873386913
  • Publisher: Kent State University Press
  • Publication date: 1/31/2002
  • Pages: 648
  • Sales rank: 1,310,895
  • Product dimensions: 7.96 (w) x 10.52 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Pt. 1 In the Beginning
1 The Deejays Who Got the Rock Rolling 3
2 It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, but They Like It 30
3 The Clubs Where It Began 71
Pt. 2 The Battle of the Sixties
4 Radio Stations and Deejays Fight for Listeners 89
5 Hail to the '60s Radio Wonders 106
6 WMMS-FM: The Glory Years 116
7 The Blues Connection 134
8 Battle of the Bands: The Early Rock Groups 151
Pt. 3 It's More Than a Job, It's an Adventure
9 The Agora: A Rock 'n' Roll Institution 181
10 Cleveland's Prominent Rock Journalists and Publications 192
11 Record and Concert Promoters 226
Pt. 4 Cleveland Rocks
12 The '70s: Any Ol' Way You Use It 249
13 Cleveland's Rockin' Deejays of the '70S 320
14 Punk Rock: A New Wave on the North Coast 354
15 Rock in the Mainstream 393
16 Deejays Still Rock in the '80s 481
17 The '90s Go to Extremes 501
18 The Prominent Deejays of the '90s 541
Pt. 5 Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay
19 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 565
20 Personal Reminiscences of Musicians, Fans, and Friends 590
App Cleveland-Area Clubs and Venues 609
Index 613
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