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Floyd R. Turbo

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Wed Mar 21, 2018, 09:20 AM Mar 2018

Hey, hey, my, my! March 21, 1952



Breathless promotion on the local radio station. Tickets selling out in a single day. Thousands of teenagers, hours before show time, lining up outside the biggest venue in town. The scene outside the Cleveland Arena on a chilly Friday night in March more than 50 years ago would look quite familiar to anyone who has ever attended a major rock concert. But no one on this particular night had ever even heard of a “rock concert.” This, after all, was the night of an event now recognized as history’s first major rock-and-roll show: the Moondog Coronation Ball, held in Cleveland on March 21, 1952.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-moondog-coronation-ball-is-historys-first-rock-concert

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Hey, hey, my, my! March 21, 1952 (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 OP
"Rock and Roll Will Never Die" -- Neil Young Ohiogal Mar 2018 #1
Indeed! ✌🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #3
1952? That does come as a surprise. NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2018 #2
Time flies!✌🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #4
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