Richard Lautens / Toronto Star ) Order this photo Artist Adrian Hayles was working on Oscar Peterson's fingers as an official kick-off was held. Richard Lautens / Toronto Star ) Order this photo Gordon Lightfoot walks past the template for the work in progress, commemorating the musical heritage of Yonge Street. As rock and roll history records, he moved up here, with his band, and set up shop in Le Coq d’Or nightclub, building legends, including his own, and making the strip ever more the promised land for music fans. It’s a fascinating and exciting place, but a rockin’ promised land? You had Glenn Gould, the swaying, ecstatic classical music virtuoso holding the stage at age 14 at the Eaton Auditorium.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 02:15 UTC