Rock And Roll Will Never Die- On Super-DJ Alan Freed Who Made That Possible
Click on link to a story about the whereabouts of legendary rock and roll DJ Alan Freed:
Frank Jackman comment:
I have made no bones about the fact
that I am a child of rock and roll, a generation of ’68 child of rock and roll which
meant that I was there at the beginning no matter whether I understood all that
was going on culturally with my slightly older brethren who were “hip” to the music
or not. I thus have it on good authority that half of what got played out in
the early to mid-1950s that laid the groundwork for the rock jailbreak from our
parents’ music involved the “godfather,” involved one Alan Freed who played the
stuff that we had been craving to hear deep in our subconscious little minds.
Oh sure Elvis, oh yes Elvis above all, Chuck, Jerry Lee, Bo, Buddy and a
fistful of others including a few, too few women, like Wanda Jackson sung the stuff
we were desperate to hear but guys like Alan Freed, no, Alan Freed was the transmission
belt, the disc jockey, D.J., who endlessly played those platters until we collapsed.
So yeah in 2016 it is nice to hear a story about the man and about him, or rather
his ashes, finding some final resting place. Be-bop, be-bop.
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