Rock ‘n’ roll history to be presented at WFU

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Musician and historian Barry Drake will give a multimedia presentation and lecture titled “60’s Rock—When the Music Mattered” March 26 at 7 p.m. in Carswell Hall at Wake Forest University. The event, sponsored by the Wake Forest Student Union, is free and open to the public.

“60’s Rock” celebrates, examines and clarifies one of the most interesting decades in American music history. The political turmoil, the social upheaval, the hippie movement, the Vietnam War and the generation gap were all reflected in the popular music of the day from The Beatles to The Supremes, Bob Dylan to The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix to The Monkees and Simon and Garfunkel to The Rolling Stones.

60's Rock poster A graduate of Manhattan College, Drake has toured the United States and Europe extensively as a singer/songwriter as well as with his rock ‘n’ roll lectures on 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s music.