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The Secret History of Rock Playlists

The Secret History of Rock Trivia Blog Welcome to Who Wants to be a Know-It-All?, the game where we see just what kind of trivia geek you are! Every week, I'll post one of my "I Did Not Know That!"-type videos, what I like to call The Secret History of Rock Trivia of the Week. And remember: if you have any kind of weird trivia, I'm always interested in it! Send it via tiwtter (@alancross), Facebook, or leave a comment at the bottom of this post. If your trivia happens to be credible, I'll use it in one of my video blogs and will credit you.

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The Secret History of Rock 019 Feb. 26, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 018 Feb. 19, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 017 Feb. 12, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 016 Feb. 5, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 015 Jan. 29, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 014 Jan. 22, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 013 Jan. 15, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 012 Jan. 08, 2012 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 011 Dec. 25, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 010 Dec. 18, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 009 Dec. 11, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 008 Dec. 04, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 007 Nov. 27, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 006 Nov. 20, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 005 Nov. 13, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 004 Nov. 6, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years.

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The Secret History of Rock 003 Oct 30, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years. This new show has been expanded to two hours and instead of covering just one topic, I got into a series of them. But the mandate remains the same: making your musical experience richer by learning more about the song, the album, the band, the artist, the scene.

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The Secret History of Rock 002 Oct 23, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years. This new show has been expanded to two hours and instead of covering just one topic, I got into a series of them. But the mandate remains the same: making your musical experience richer by learning more about the song, the album, the band, the artist, the scene.

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The Secret History of Rock 001 Oct 16, 2011 The Secret History of Rock is the successor to The Ongoing History of New Music, the radio documentary that ran for more than 18 years. This new show has been expanded to two hours and instead of covering just one topic, I got into a series of them. But the mandate remains the same: making your musical experience richer by learning more about the song, the album, the band, the artist, the scene.

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I've always been a geek. Just ask anyone I went to school with or any the girls I tried to date.

My obsession with music began at age six when my grandmother gave me a transistor radio—an old Lloyds—which spawned an all-consuming fascination with things that came over airwaves. A few years later, my uncle—who moonlighted by servicing jukeboxes—kick started my record collection by dumping a box of old 7-inch singles on me one Sunday afternoon. I was hooked.

In 1980, I got my start CKUW at the University of Winnipeg, which, at the time, was a closed-circuit station. Our broadcast range was limited to one hallway and one cafeteria.

After graduating I ended up at CJRL in Kenora, a 1,000 watt AM station that broadcast to the people and wildlife of Northwestern Ontario. From there, it was on to KX-96/Brandon and Q94-FM/Winnipeg before I ended up at CFNY (renamed The Edge) in October 1986. I'd first heard about the place through Rush's "Spirit of Radio" when I was still in high school and remember thinking to myself "Wouldn't it be cool to work there one day?"

After fifteen years as a CFNY/Edge in a variety of announcer gigs, I moved to program director at Y95 in Hamilton, overseeing, in part, a frequency change which made the station Y108.

In 2004, I started a four year stint as the station's Program Director (where I was somehow was named Canada's PD of the year in 2005, 2006 and 2008), my latent geekiness once again came to the fore and I became Senior Program Director for Corus Interactive, the online arm of Corus Radio. My last project with Corus was as Head Curator of ExploreMusic, a truly unique online and on-air feature dedicated to music discovery.

Oh, and that radio show. The Ongoing History of New Music debuted in February 1993 and since then it's...well, it's taken on a life of its own. There have been over 690 one-hour episodes making it (I think) the longest-running music documentary in Canada and one of the longest in North America—if not the world!

If you're into reading, I have a weekly national newspaper column in the Metro commuter paper, four published reference works on alt-rock and four audio books, The Alan Cross Guide to Alternative Rock.

What else? There was ExploreMusic-TV on Bite-TV and Aux. The inflight audio programming I did for Air Canada for years. The various TV guest appearances. The official biographies I wrote for rock bands. Appearances in dozens of documentaries. The magazine articles. The narrations. The speaking gigs and lecture series.

Jeezus, no wonder we don't have kids.

There's more planned, too. Watch this space.

Occupation

Professional Music Geek

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