![]() ![]() "Lets face it - rock n roll is bigger than all of us" he predicted. To some, it seems hat disc jockey Alan Freed's words have become prophetic: "Any who says rock n roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music roads has rock in the head," said the man who coined the rock music term. ![]() The fact that the release of a rock and roll album could command national news attention and bring in more revenues -perhaps $450 million- than any other album ever recorded tells you something of what has happened in this country since the rock music craze was introduced more than thirty years ago. ![]() "Parents, teach your children to sing rock and roll", Brokaw said with a wry smile. We are all hypocrites.Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman closed his November 10, 1986, Evening News program with an item about rock and roll singer Bruce Springsteens unprecedented five-record album release, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND LIVE 1975-1985.Īccording to Brokaw, more than 5 million copies of the album had been pressed with 1.5 million shipped to record stores "and most of those sold to frantic customers standing in long lines the first day at $30 each" "He gave me hope because he has been a sinner and because I am a sinner. "I have been about a bit in my life," he said, glancing at his feet. That story of redemption attracted people like John Fantom, 53, a telemarketer who has attended the church for seven years. It was like, 'Oh, I work here? Oh, boy.' God began to convice me in such a gentle and lovely way that I don't belong here. "I drove back to the casino, and I walked in. "The next morning I wake up and everything's changed in my life and in my heart," he recounted in one interview. It was a brother, Jim, who took him by the scruff and told him there was another, Godly, path. He founded the church in a shop back in 1985 after coming here from Las Vegas, where he admitted using cocaine and managing a casino with strippers. ![]() He has previous, which was actually central to his appeal. There is a special poignancy to Coy's fall from grace. ![]()
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