Radio Rewind: The Rock’n’Roll Career of DJ Alan Freed
Had he not been nailed to a cross for the payola sins everyone committed in the 1950s, Pope Francis might have elevated Alan Freed to sainthood when he was in the US last
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A (Very) Brief History of Music Festivals
This was my column in this week’s Metro papers. It’s short, but all I get is 400 words. On Friday, March 21, 1952, 20,000 kids piled into the Cleveland Arena at the behest
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Remembering Moondog, the Man Who Inadvertently Gave Us Rock and Roll
Let’s go back to the early 1950s when a fast-talking Cleveland DJ named Alan Freed started causing havoc by playing “race records”–what they called R&B records back then–on the radio for a huge
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Why Can’t We Let Old Radio DJs Rest in Peace?
Alan Freed and Casey Kasem are two of the most legendary DJs of all time, yet they can’t seem to find final resting places. If you’ve been following Casey’s situation, he’s currently in
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