Bbc News - How The World's First Rock Concert Ended In Chaos
Rock and roll
His son, Stuart Mintz, says his father told Freed the "kids are rocking and rolling in the aisles to these records, but they won't buy them". Mintz helped Freed, then a humble sportscaster, secure a new show on the city's WJW radio in 1951, devoted to playing this underground music. Freed would coin the term rock 'n' roll - an old blues euphemism for sex - to describe the tracks. Using the on-air alias King of the Moondoggers, he would ring a cow bell, drink beer and howl in tribute as he played the records, while pounding out the beat with his fist on a phone book.