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Moondog Coronation Ball
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The Moondog Coronation Ball was a concert held at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on March 21, 1952. It is generally accepted as the first major rock and roll concert.
The concert was organized by Alan Freed, a disc jockey and considered to have coined the term "Rock and Roll" at WJW-Radio, along with Lew Platt, a local concert promoter, and Freed's sponsors. More tickets were printed than the arena's actual capacity, in part due to counterfeiting. With an estimated 20,000 individuals trying to crowd into an arena that held slightly more than half that - and worries that a riot might break out as people tried to crowd in - the fire authorities shut down the concert after the first song by Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams ended.
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Alan Freed was not the promoter. He was hired as a dee-jay by Leo Mintz owner of the Record Rendezvous. He got Alan Freed a job in Cleveland, and gave him the words Rock&Roll to use onthe radio. It was Leo's idea to have the Moondog Coronation Ball, which was just another in the long series of Moondog Balls that he ran on weekends.