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...idea of creating a major museum dedicated to rock music is a relatively recent one. In 1983 a group of record-industry professionals founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to honor musical greats; the first inductees (including Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and Chuck Berry) were selected in January 1986. But even as the selections were made and the institution's first all-star jam held, the hall had no actual residence. In May 1986 the Hall of Fame board, after considering such sites as New York City and Memphis, Tennessee, decided to locate in Cleveland. Ostensibly, the city...
...group's first fan club, with all of three members, called itself the Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion--a name that the Dead gratefully took as the title of the first song on its first album. Over time, Deadheads improvised their own vocabulary, infrastructure and code of honor. Mythologist Joseph Campbell said they were the most recently developed tribe on the planet...
Once, Dead was God; now God is dead. With rock stars, such news is a shock but not a surprise. Garcia, whose private funeral service was held Friday (the guest of honor attired in black T shirt and sweats), was the fourth Dead member to die. Three keyboard players preceded him: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, in 1973 of cirrhosis of the liver; Keith Godchaux, in 1980 after a car crash; and Brent Mydland, in 1990 after shooting a speedball--cocaine and morphine...
...charges "one by one." Botero--whose father Fernando Botero Angulo is Colombia's most famous painter--also denied the accusations, saying he only stepped down so he could devote time to preparing his defense. "I cannot prolong a situation in which my personal integrity and my family's honor are questioned," he said...
...Italian Architecture in theMid-Sixteenth Century (1950), Patrons andArchitects: Designing Art Museums in the TwentiethCentury (1989) and Gustave Dore'sLondon (1994). He also wrote a number ofarticles on American architecture and Baroquesculpture. In 1983 the Journal of the Society ofArchitectural Historians dedicated an issue (March1983) to John Coolidge in honor of his 70thbirthday...