Hi my dear friends, today we are going to visit The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It 's a Museum, not only for rock and rock lovers but also for everyone who wants to know a bit more about the history of rock. I hope you'll like it!
Hola mis queridos amigos, hoy vamos a visitar el Museo de la Fama y el Rock and Roll, en Cleveland, Ohio, Estados Unidos. No es solo un museo para los amantes del Rock sino también para todo el que quiera saber un poquito más sobre la historia del Rock. ¡Espero que os guste!
Info: from Sepak Up magazine.
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TOUGH CITY MUSIC
Cleveland, Ohio isn't high on the list of tourist destinations in the United States, but it is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was inaugurated in 1995. The idea of a hall of fame for rock musicians was conceived in New York in the 1980s, but Cleveland was chosen as the permanent location.
It was in competition with other cities like Memphis, and was chosen in a readers' poll conducted by USA Today. But that wasn't the only reason why Cleveland was chosen. Cleveland is the home of a DJ named Alan Freed who was the first person to popularize the phrase "rock & roll". He used that phrase to describe the rythm and blues records that he was spinning on the airwaves in 1951.
Moreover, Cleveland is a very important rock & roll city. You can find music at almost any venue , any night of the week. It is a post-industrial city and the perfect place to have a seriously thriving rock & roll scene. It has a gospel tradition, as well.
IT IS ONLY ROCK & ROLL
Alan Freed, as I have mentioned before, is credited with being the first person to use the term "rock & roll". He was a DJ at the WJW station in Cleveland, Ohio. He has also been called "the father of rock & roll" and he was one of the first DJs to play black music to white audiences. And that is one of the reasons why Cleveland now hosts the spectacular Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which first opened its doors in 1995.
It features seven floors, all of which are dedicated to the artists, producers, managers and journalists who palyed their part in the history of rock & roll.
ELVIS AND FRIENDS
The idea of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is older than the building itself. The first artists to be inducted were Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley in 1986. Presley had died nine years earlier and, as the Hall of Fame's Manager of Education Outreach, Kathryn Metz, explains, the rule for induction is that at least 25 years must have passed since the artist or group's first recording. The Hall of Fame's architecture is remarkable, but its collection of 2,000 pieces of memorabilia is even more so. It includes everything from Michael Jackson's glove to Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and Beyoncé's stage costumes. Beyoncé is very young to have been inducted but many living inductees do come and pay a visit.
ABSENT
Sadly, you won't get to see Alan Freed in person either.
His career was destroyed by the "payola" scandal (record companies bribing radio stations to play their music) and he died in 1965, at the age of 43.
MODERN ART
When it came to designing the Hall of Fame, Cleveland chose I.M. Pei, the famous Chinese-American architect. He is responsible for the pyramids on top of the Louvre , in France and he was the one who designed it. He built something that looks like a record player from the sky. So if you fly over Cleveland in a plane, you can see how there's a record and the arm of the record player and the mechanics of the record player, It's a modern art interpretation!
MEMORABILIA
The Hall of Fame contains some amazing memorabilia. Everything from guitars, some lyrics from Bob Dylan, the roller skates that belonged to the Everly Brothers, the ledgers that Berry Gordy of Motown Records kept to keep track of all of his artists and their recordings, many dresses as well as the drums that belonged to ZZ Top. Instruments, contracts, posters. John Lennon's glasses and more...
VOCABULARY
TO INDUCT: incorporar.
-GLOVE:guante.
-TO BRIBE: sobornar.
