1950's Media | Alan Freed Popularizes Rock 'n' Roll

"Alan Freed"

Magazine article

By: Alan Freed

Date: December 1956

Source: Freed, Alan. "Alan Freed." Photoplay, December 1956. Available online at www.alanfreed.com (accessed March 24, 2003).

"What Alan Freed Really Thinks About Rock 'n' Roll"

Interview

By: Alan Freed

Date: 1958

Source: Freed, Alan. "What Alan Freed Really Thinks About Rock 'n' Roll." Interview by Anita Behrman. People Weekly, October 1958, 20–26.

About the Author: Alan Freed (1922–1965), a disk jockey from Cleveland, helped to make that city an early center of rock and roll. He was one of the first white DJs to popularize rhythm and blues music, at first in Cleveland and then on a national radio program. In 1954 Freed moved to New York, where he was a disk jockey for a radio station there....