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When Paul Simon took The Plain Dealer Pavilion stage last summer and said, with what he apparently thought would be irony, “Hello, Cleveland!” he was surprised to meet with roaring approval.
By ANDY GRAY Tribune Chronicle
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New in book stores is ‘‘Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories’’ ($19.95, Gray & Company), a brief, breezy oral history of the city’s music scene, primarily in the 1960s and ’70s.
At 131 pages, it’s far from encyclopedic, but it has some fun anecdotes compiled by Carlo Wolff, a longtime music writer who’s been based in Cleveland since the mid-’80s.
Of course, Cleveland’s popular music history is also the Mahoning Valley’s music history, and the region doesn’t go unmentioned in the book.
The Sun Press
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Carlo Wolff began with a simple goal.
“It was my idea to write a book memorializing Cleveland’s rock scene,” the South Euclid resident said.
The result is the 129-page “Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories,” released last month by Gray & Company.
“It’s nostalgia told through the voices of local people,” Wolff said. Read the rest of this entry »
By Benjamin Pogany
Insights
Published Nov. 29, 2006
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Journalist pens fun folk history of Cleveland rock
By Benjamin Pogany
Insights
Published Nov. 29, 2006
In his new book, “Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories,” local journalist and author Carlo Wolff takes a fun, incisive look at three decades of Cleveland’s music history. The result is a well-researched work that is an absolute blast to read. Read the rest of this entry »
From Cool Cleveland Managing Editor Peter Chakerian peterATcoolcleveland.com
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Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories
Carlo Wolff
Gray & Company
Music fans who grew up in Cleveland hear a lot about the “golden age” of Rock and Roll. Sometimes, it’s downright inescapable: from endless classic rock on the radio, to the glass menagerie at the end of East Ninth, every signpost in town points back to that era. Noted rock critic Carlo Wolff has documented those signposts and paired them with historical perspective and first-person narratives for his new Cleveland rock nostalgia book, Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories.This book collects memories of Clevelanders who were entrenched in the music scene: musicians, reporters, jocks, reporters, club owners, and the fans. Some memories seem to meander with ubiquitous zeal; others (including those of PD Minister of Culture Michael Heaton) are spot-on and laugh-out-loud funny. When Heaton leaves the over-attended Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon gig at Blossom, you know he’s not as “invisible” as he thinks he is. Read the rest of this entry »