Janice Brooks
From:
Pleasant Gap Pa
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Posted 7 Apr 2002 2:29 pm |
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CLEVELAND (AP) - The late, legendary disc jockey Alan Freed has been enshrined
at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame - literally.
A brass urn containing Freed's ashes have been sealed in an undisclosed wall at
the rock hall.
Freed, who died in 1965 at age 43, popularized the term ``rock 'n' roll,'' and
Cleveland staked its claim to the rock hall on his legacy.
His remains had been interred at a mausoleum in Hartsdale, N.Y. Freed's four
children and third wife approved the move.
The marble plaque that marked his gave now hangs in the rock hall lobby.
``I'm sure some people will find it unusual and others might find it morbid,''
said Terry Stewart, rock hall president and chief executive. ``It's certainly
appropriate in a rock 'n' roll sense to have his final resting place here.''
Lance Freed said it was what his father would have wanted.
``My father was very much a public figure. He said, 'Look, if something happens
to me, just two things: I want to be near the music and I want to be near the
public.' He lived for ... the music,'' he said.
The ashes were delivered Wednesday, and a brief service was held Thursday, the
50th anniversary of his Moondog Coronation Ball at the old Cleveland Arena, an
event widely regarded as the first rock concert.
Freed was part of the first class of rock hall inductees in 1986.
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Janice "Busgal" Brooks
ICQ 44729047
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