Alan freed movie
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ALAN FREED, the man responsible for giving rock’n’roll its name, was many things to many people. To some, he was the original Mr Clean, an innocent ‘good guy’, who opened up hitherto-segregated airwaves and made an unparalleled contribution to the advancement of black popular music.
This was the sympathetic impression conveyed by the Floyd Mutrux 1978 bio-pic, American Hot Wax. ‘He brought us rock’n’roll,’ said Mutrux. ‘I didn’t want to say bad things about a guy who started all that.’ To others like Alexander Walker, the London Evening Standard film critic who met the volatile disc jockey during his heyday, Freed was a pathetic figure, an ignorant crook who accepted kickbacks from any promoter willing to pay his price.
Of Welsh-Lithuanian descent, Freed was born on 15th December 1921 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; his family moved to Salem, Ohio, when he was four. Freed described his childhood as ‘normal’ although his surroundings were far from affluent. He showed some musical talent, want
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Alan Freed
American disc jockey and rock-and-roll figure (1921–1965)
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| Born | Albert James Freed (1921-12-15)December 15, 1921 Windber, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 20, 1965(1965-01-20) (aged 43) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Disc jockey |
| Years active | 1945–1965 |
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| Children | 4 |
Albert James "Alan" Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965) was an American disc jockey.[1] He also produced and promoted large traveling concerts with various acts, helping to spread the importance of rock and roll music throughout North America, including popularizing the term "rock and roll".
In 1986, Freed was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His
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Alan Freed
Photo courtesy Library of Congress
One of the most important popularizes of rock and roll during the '50s, Alan Freed was the first disc jockey and concert producer of rock and roll. Often credited with coining the term rock and roll in 1951, ostensibly to avoid the stigma attached to R&B and so called race music, Freed opened the door to white acceptance of black music, eschewing white cover versions in favor of the R&B originals.
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Albert James Freed was born December 15, 1922 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania of a Welsh mother and Lithuanian born father. He was one of three sons of Maude and Charles Freed, a clothing store salesman. In 1933 when Freed was twelve his family moved to Salem, Ohio. He attended Salem High School during which time he formed a band known as the Sultans of Swing, in which he played trombone. His ambition was to on day to become a bandleader, but an ear infect
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