{"id":64543,"date":"2015-11-11T04:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=64543"},"modified":"2015-11-11T04:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:42:53","slug":"rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-communing-with-muses-and-finding-serenity-amid-the-clamour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/11\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-communing-with-muses-and-finding-serenity-amid-the-clamour\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: communing with muses and finding serenity amid the clamour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CLEVELAND\u2014I \u00a0found my serenity at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

It may sound counterintuitive, but architect I.M. Pei\u2019s temple to all things rock offers generations of music-lovers a chance to commune with their muses.<\/p>\n

When the weather turned rainy on the last day of a Great Lakes family vacation, a detour to Cleveland emerged as Plan B.<\/p>\n

Once there, because musical devotions are so personal, we immediately split up without discussion to pursue our individual passions.<\/p>\n

I obsessed over a Paul Simon exhibit while my husband sought out Jimi Hendrix and my teenage son took off for the likes of Jay Z, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

(Weeks later, I\u2019m still pondering a film clip in which Simon said he had \u201cno idea\u201d why he wrote the line \u201cWhere have you gone, Joe DiMaggio\u201d in the song \u201cMrs. Robinson.\u201d)<\/p>\n

We mustered a search party for my husband at one point and found he him holed up in a booth where you could pull up one-hit-wonders.<\/p>\n

And when on vacation, why not while away a little time pausing to remember Right Said Fred\u2019s \u201cI’m Too Sexy\u201d or an earlier generation\u2019s \u201cMore Today Than Yesterday\u201d from Spiral Staircase?<\/p>\n

The seven-level museum on the Lake Erie waterfront is surprisingly manageable.<\/p>\n

A concise pamphlet steers visitors through it in logical order. And visitors can slow down for a deep dive at any point, or sprint ahead to something else that speaks to them.<\/p>\n

Some exhibits were a hit all around with our family\u2014Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson’s glove\u2014while others struck only individual fancies.<\/p>\n

I loved reading the yellowed pages on which singers from Hendrix to Swift had scribbled lyrics, doodled, scratched out words and reworked them.<\/p>\n

And my favourite scrap of paper was the \u201cWhen-I-grow-up\u201d essay written in 1981 by future Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, laying out his detailed plan to become a rock star\u2014or a football player if that didn\u2019t pan out.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s time to take a break from musical immersion, the museum offers surprisingly good and affordable food at a cafe on the airy third level, with tables overlooking lower levels and on a balcony facing the lake. You can watch the paddleboarders and kayakers heading out from the Rock & Dock marina behind the museum.<\/p>\n

Plenty of ways to find serenity amid the clamour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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