Let\'s head backstage at Cleveland\'s Legendary Rock and Roll Landmarks as club owners, talent bookers, performers, promoters, and concertgoers share stories from the 1950s through 1990s about .
The renowned Swingos\' celebrity hotel on Euclid Avenue, where bands remembered checking in and checking out--but nothing in-between And other classic venues well worth remembering..
Bars and clubs like the Euclid Tavern , Variety Theater , and Empire Concert Club that rocked the \'80s and \'90s with punk, thrash, electronica--whatever it took.
Staid, classical Public Auditorium , where the Beatles incited a riot and Led Zeppelin grabbed a teenage audience volunteer to fill in on bass Musicarnival , the circular big-top tent that alternated summer-stock with hard-Rock (to the dismay of suburban neighbors).
Groundbreaking R&B clubs Gleason\'s and Leo\'s Casino .
Monster concerts at Cleveland Municipal Stadium --including the epic, multi-year World Series of Rock.
The hugely influential Agora , where Springsteen and so many other acts burst onto the scene The Coliseum at Richfield , erected in the middle of nowhere just in time for the arrival of arena rock.
Where it all began: the Cleveland Arena , site of the first-ever Rock concert, anywhere. . .
Let\'s head backstage at Cleveland\'s Legendary Rock and Roll Landmarks as club owners, talent bookers, performers, promoters, and concertgoers share stories from the 1950s through 1990s about
