While college students were a big part of the audience at Woodstock in the summer of 1969, John “Jocko” Marcellino – then both a freshman at Columbia University and the drummer for Sha Na Na – was ...

The saying goes: If you can remember Woodstock, you weren't there. But John "Jocko" Marcellino says he remembers half that weekend in August 1969, and he was there. By the time Monday morning arrived ...

Screamin’ Scott Simon, who spent 52 years as the pianist of the energetic rock ’n’ roll and doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai after a long battle with sinus cancer, his daughter Nina ...

It was the most memorable 35 minutes of their young lives. Forty years ago today, Columbia University students John “Jocko” Marcellino and Joseph “Joe” Witkin were at Woodstock, the ...

Jocko Marcellino readily acknowledges he has lived a charmed life. The veteran singer and drummer was a 19-year-old Columbia University student when his then-brand-new band, Sha Na Na, performed ...

“I didn’t know the 1950s were the good old days until we were past them,” cracks Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s principal pops conductor, Marvin Hamlisch. A multiple-award-winning composer, Hamlisch, 65 ...

Scott Simon, who dedicated 52 years playing the piano for doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai, California, at the age of 75 after a long battle with sinus cancer, his daughter Nina Simon ...

Even if you’ve never been to a sock hop, Quincy native Jocko Marcellino promises "You can rock it, you can roll it, you can slop it, you can stroll it'' when Sha Na Na cuts loose at Hanover Theatre in ...

A mainstay and manager of a rock ’n’ roll nostalgia band, he wrote the lyrics to “Sandy,” a song heard in the hit film “Grease.” By Richard Sandomir Screamin’ Scott Simon, who as the dynamic ...

Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): Screamin' Scott Simon, the celebrated pianist of the iconic rock 'n' roll and doo-wop group Sha Na Na, has passed away at the age of 75, The Hollywood Reporter has ...