Let’s head backstage at Cleveland’s legendary rock and roll landmarks as club owners, talent bookers, performers, promoters, and concertgoers share stories from the 1950s through 1990s about …
- Where it all began: the Cleveland Arena, site of the first-ever rock concert, anywhere.
- The hugely influential Agora, where Springsteen and so many other acts burst onto the scene
- The Coliseum at Richfield, erected in the middle of nowhere just in time for the arrival of arena rock.
- Monster concerts at Cleveland Municipal Stadium–including the epic, multi-year World Series of Rock.
- Groundbreaking R&B clubs Gleason’s and Leo’s Casino.
- Staid, classical Public Auditorium, where the Beatles incited a riot and Led Zeppelin grabbed a teenage audience volunteer to fill in on bass
- Musicarnival, the circular big-top tent that alternated summer-stock with hard-rock (to the dismay of suburban neighbors).
- Bars and clubs like the Euclid Tavern, Variety Theater, and Empire Concert Club that rocked the ’80s and ’90s with punk, thrash, electronica–whatever it took.
- The renowned Swingos’ celebrity hotel on Euclid Avenue, where bands remembered checking in and checking out–but nothing in-between
- And other classic venues well worth remembering.
Author: Mike Olszewski, Janice Olszewski
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Gray & Company Publishers
Published: 05/15/2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781598511048
Language: English
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