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2000 - Joe Vitale Jr. Starts work on debut album "Dancing With Shadows"
1990 - Canton native Macy Gray releases her debut album
1997 - 'Cleveland Rocks' becomes the theme song for The Drew Carey Show
1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland
1995 - Stephen Stills sang the National Anthem at Jacob's Field
1988 - Nine Inch Nails formed in an Upstairs apartment in Downtown Cleveland
1985 - 'Heart of Rock and Roll' (with Cleveland in the lyric) by Huey Lewis & The News hits the charts
1980 - 'Whip It' by Akron based New Wave band DEVO makes it to #14 on the Billboard Charts
1979 - 'Cleveland Rocks' by Ian Hunter becomes de facto anthem for Cleveland
1978 - Live concerts were featured on TV in Cleveland at The Agora before MTV made its debut
1974 - Michael Stanley Band forms in Cleveland
1973 - Akron based New Wave band Devo forms
1972 - Eric Carmen & The Raspberries rise to fame
1970 - Neil Young writes the song “Ohio” three weeks before the Kent State shootings
1968 - The Cleveland Agora Books its first National Act - The Buckinghams
1968 - The first 'in house' recording studio is built at The Cleveland Agora
1966 - The James Gang forms in Cleveland
1963 - The O'Jays release their first hit "Lonely Drifter"
1952 - The very first Rock n Roll concert was held at the Cleveland Arena
1951 - Cleveland DJ Alan "Moondog" Freed coins the phrase - 'Rock-n-Roll"