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Who was the first rock and roll band to play Carnegie Hall?
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Far Out Magazine
Who was the first rock and roll band to play Carnegie Hall?
“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” asks a person hoping for directions.
The idea, pretty much since this esteemed concert venue opened in 1891, is that not-just-anybody plays Carnegie Hall.
On May 6th, 1955, Carnegie Hall hosted a two-part “Jazz and Variety” concert to benefit the Lighthouse, New York’s Association for the Blind.
The year prior, in 1954, Haley’s band had carried the banner for the rock revolution with a pair of giant radio hits: ‘Rock Around the Clock’ and ‘Shake, Rattle & Roll’.