I don’t know how many books there are out there that chronicle the creation of a museum from scratch. I’d wager not many. But even if the shelves at Barnes and Noble were filled with them, the story of building the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a singular one. “The House that Rock Built,” by noted DJ and author Norm N. Nite and former Plain Dealer journalist Tom Feran, tells that story from the inside: one of the first Clevelanders to get involved, Nite was there from the time the Hall was a twinkle in Cleveland’s eye right up through the opening extravaganza in September of 1995. (With a show that was scheduled for six hours and still ran long – some things never change).
Reading this book brings it home that many of the issues we see today in how the Hall operates aren’t new, but date back to the Hall’s genesis. And they didn’t necessarily happen for the reasons you might think.
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