Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection
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ForewordAcknowledgmentsPrefacePt. 1In the Beginning1The Deejays Who Got the Rock Rolling32It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, but They Like It303The Clubs Where It Began71Pt. 2The Battle of the Sixties4Radio Stations and Deejays Fight for Listeners895Hail to the '60s Radio Wonders1066WMMS-FM: The Glory Years1167The Blues Connection1348Battle of the Bands: The Early Rock Groups151Pt. 3It's More Than a Job, It's an Adventure9The Agora: A Rock 'n' Roll Institution18110Cleveland's Prominent Rock Journalists and Publications19211Record and Concert Promoters226Pt. 4Cleveland Rocks12The '70s: Any Ol' Way You Use It24913Cleveland's Rockin' Deejays of the '70S32014Punk Rock: A New Wave on the North Coast35415Rock in the Mainstream39316Deejays Still Rock in the '80s48117The '90s Go to Extremes50118The Prominent Deejays of the '90s541Pt. 5Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay19The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum56520Personal Reminiscences of Musicians, Fans, and Friends590AppCleveland-Area Clubs and Venues609Index613
\ Library JournalCleveland-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.\ \
