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Rolling Stone New Book Explores How the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Landed in Cleveland
“So many people want to claim they were responsible for bringing the Hall to Cleveland, says writer Norm Nite, “and I knew the real people that were responsible”
By Mark Duncan/AP
On October 2nd, 1995, weeks after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened its doors in Cleveland, Ohio,
Rolling Stone founder and then-Hall of Fame chairman Jann Wenner sent a letter to CBS disc jockey Norm N. Nite.
“With all the hoopla past us, I just want to take a moment to go on record and thank you for linking Cleveland to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in the first place,” he wrote. “Without your being there and doing the right thing at the right time when nobody else saw it it may never have happened. So my hat is off to you, an unsung hero of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
Norm N. Nite’s ‘The House That Rock Built’ is the ultimate gift to Cleveland music fans
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Norm N. Nite s latest book The House That Rock Built tells the story of how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came to be in Cleveland.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – As anyone who’s discussed music with someone outside of Northeast Ohio knows, one question seems to never go away: Why is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland?
There are several worthy answers, from Leo Mintz selling rhythm and blues records at Record Rendezvous and disc jockey Alan Freed playing them on local airwaves to money, money and lots of money.