{"id":743935,"date":"2026-08-20T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743935\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:14:11","slug":"godmother-of-rock-and-rolls-manchester-station-gig-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743935\/","title":{"rendered":"Godmother of rock and roll&#8217;s Manchester station gig honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A unique slice of Manchester&#8217;s musical history &#8211; when the &#8220;Godmother of rock and roll&#8221; performed live at a city railway station &#8211; has been commemorated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The day Sister Rosetta Tharpe played at the disused station at Whalley Range&#8217;s Wilbraham Road in May 1964 has been marked with the unveiling of a blue plaque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tharpe, who influenced music legends Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Little Richard among others, was recording a show for Granada TV&#8217;s Blues and Gospel Train, along with greats such as blues giant Muddy Waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plaque is part of an initiative by social historian and broadcaster Karen Gabay, to place plaques across Manchester, honouring Black musicians who left a mark on the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A unique slice of Manchester&#8217;s musical history &#8211; when the &#8220;Godmother of rock and roll&#8221; performed live at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}