September 1, 1995 –
After twelve years of building, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Cleveland, by the Lake Erie waterfront, on this date. The organization was established in 1983 by a group of leading figures in the music industry — including Atlantic Records cofounder Ahmet Ertegun and Jann Wenner, the publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.
Cleveland was the place where Alan Freed, the popular disk jockey of WJW-AM radio show, first popularized the term “Rock and Roll” on his pioneering Moondog Rock ‘n’ Roll Party radio show.
Since the cutting of the ribbon, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum has hosted over eight million visitors and 50,000 of them were students and teachers.
