This could be the weirdest rock’n’roll origin story ever
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC[ I promise that by the end of this story you will learn will shake your head–maybe at the history of it
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Let’s give credit to three unsung pioneers of music.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca and was adapted from the much more in-depth Ongoing History of New Music program/podcast on the subject. Check out Unsung Heroes of Music
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 927: Unsung heroes, part 1
Not everyone who managed to change the world is famous. It is possible to do something absolutely monumentally world-shaking and not receive any attention for it. In fact, I’ll give
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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
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