Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1965, this guy passed away at the age of 42. He called himself the “father of rock and roll”, and appeared in movies such as ‘Rock Around the Clock’ and ‘Don’t Knock the Rock’. Who was it?

Answer: It was American disc-jockey Alan Freed. His career was famously destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s.