tour in the city, Bruce Springsteen, Roxy Music, and Rush among many others. during the 1970s and 1980s, including David Bowie, who began his first U.S. In addition, Cleveland cited radio station WMMS, which played a key role in breaking several major acts in the U.S. Freed was also a member of the hall of fame's inaugural class of inductees in 1986. Ĭleveland lobbied for the museum, with civic leaders in Cleveland pledging $65 million in public money to fund the construction, and citing that WJW disc jockey Alan Freed both coined the term " rock and roll" and heavily promoted the new genre-and that Cleveland was the location of Freed's Moondog Coronation Ball, often credited as the first major rock and roll concert. The search committee considered several cities, including Philadelphia (home of Bill Haley and American Bandstand), Memphis (home of Sun Studios and Stax Records), Detroit (home of Motown Records), Cincinnati (home of King Records), New York City, and Cleveland.
The Foundation began inducting artists in 1986, but the Hall of Fame still had no home.
The RRHOF Foundation was established in 1983 by Ahmet Ertegun, who assembled a team that included Rolling Stone publisher Jann S. Wenner, record executives Seymour Stein, Bob Krasnow, and Noreen Woods, and attorneys Allen Grubman and Suzan Evans.
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