Word: bronxoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Future historians may find it convenient to date the end of the Rock Era as the last week of April 1971. It came with neither bang nor whimper -only the booming, Bronxoid voice of Wolfgang Grajonca, better known as Bill Graham, announcing that he had had it. Graham is closing down Manhattan's Fillmore East (this summer) and San Francisco's Fillmore West (next fall)-the two cathedrals of the loud, hard-driving sound that for a memorable decade has been the soul of youth's counterculture. The reason Graham gave was that rock had gained...
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