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Station to station : the history of rock 'n' roll on television / Marc Weingarten

Local heroes -- "A real decent, fine boy": Elvis on tv -- The idolmaker: Dick Clark and American Bandstand -- Nelson family values -- The whole world is watching: the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show - ...
phillyvoice.com

Philly greatly influenced early rock 'n' roll, but a new book calls attention to its 'overlooked' role in later decades

Philadelphia was home to some of rock 'n' roll's biggest stars and iconic sounds leading up to the 1970s, with Bill Haley helping bring the genre to mainstream America and Dick Clark's "American ...
The New York Times

Michael Ochs, Top Collector of Rock ’n’ Roll Photos, Dies at 82

He surveyed the trash of record companies, haggled with aging photographers and scoured estate sales, building an archive widely seen as unmatched. By Alex Traub Michael Ochs, who out of nerdy ...