Believing that the Wanamaker Building space was more valuable than portions of the historic Wanamaker store, the Philadelphia flagship store was reduced to its first five stories, the Juniper Street side became the lobby of an office building for the upper stories, and the former basement Budget Store became a parking garage.

* Jobriath Boone-( born Bruce Wayne Campbell December 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died August 3, 1983 ), A native of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, he was an American folk and glam rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, Elektra Records ..

Other landmarks historically associated with Ardmore include the Autocar Manufacturing Company, an important manufacturer of trucks and jeeps during the world wars, once located on Lancaster Pike on the site of the current Ardmore West Shopping Center, which burned down in a famous conflagration in 1956 ; the Ardmore Theater on Lancaster Pike, now the Philadelphia Sports Club ; Harrison's Department Store, on the north side of Lancaster Pike across from the theater ; Mads Record Shop, rock music mecca since the genre's inception, still going strong ; the Merion Art Center ; the Pennywise Thrift Shop of Jefferson Medical College ; Lyons Hardware Store on Rittenhouse Place ; Rittenhouse Electric, also on Rittenhouse Place ; A. Talone Cleaners at Lancaster and Greenfield ; and luxury travel company SWAIN Tours.

In 1984, Culture Club won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Philadelphia Inquirer said about the successful band, " Among the other major winners were the English rock band Culture Club ( Best New Artist ), hard-rock vocalist Pat Benatar ( Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female ) and the English rock trio The Police ( Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group )".

Philadelphia Daily News described Culture Club as a hot new rock act, while William K Knoedelseder Jr from Los Angeles Times said about the group, " Boy George of Culture Club, a rock group MTV helped make popular ", adding that, " There's some debate in the record industry about MTV's ability to directly increase record sales across the board but there's no doubt that the channel has been responsible for exposing such rock artists as Def Leppard, Duran Duran and Men at Work to a national audience ...".

When Culture Club won the 1984 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Philadelphia Inquirer said about the band, " Among the other major winners were the English rock band Culture Club ( Best New Artist ), hard-rock vocalist Pat Benatar ( Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female ) and the English rock trio The Police ( Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group )".

Bonaduce came to Seattle from a radio stint at 94 WYSP in Philadelphia, following a format change from classic rock to all sports radio in September, 2011.

* Eastern Conference Champions, an American indie rock band from Philadelphia, PA

The live success in cities such as St Louis, Philadelphia and New York was not translated into US airplay however and the band returned to the UK at the beginning of 1977 to find punk rock the new popular style of rock ; and that they were largely forgotten and out of fashion.

WYSP in Philadelphia became the nation's very first " classic rock " station in the spring of 1981, when Frank X Feller, then general manager, received a suggestion and a reel to reel tape with a sample of what the " Classic Rock " format would sound like from account executive Jim Sacony.

In 1994, Philadelphia indie rock band The Strapping Fieldhands recorded a 3-track no-fi version of the song ( as well as a reprise that closes the album ) for its EP " In The Pineys ".

He played bass guitar and rhythm guitar in a number of rock and roll bands at Amherst, including Tambourine Charlie & The Four Flat Tires, The Naugahyde Revolution ( with Jim Steinman, then a fellow student, on keyboards ), and The Flower & Vegetable Show ( he has played his guitar on 7th Heaven, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and in the 2007 romantic comedy Because I Said So ).

Page Samuel McConnell ( born May 17, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work as a songwriter and keyboardist with the American rock band Phish.

He had less regard for sound quality and would play with a manic energy, mixing everything from classic Philadelphia Disco classics, italo disco imports to new wave, disco and rock tracks.

* Philadelphia punk rock band Dead Milkmen have a song called " I Dream of Jesus ", in which the singer's mother finds Jesus who is trapped inside a bottle.

The Hooters ( frequently listed simply as " Hooters ", without the definite article ) are an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

During the 1980s, The Hooters played on the Philadelphia club scene, boosted by airplay on WMMR, the major rock radio station in Philadelphia at the time.

Except for a small reunion heard on the concept album Largo ( which featured appearances by all the members except for Lilley ) in 1998, The Hooters did not play together again until November 21, 2001, when they performed at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia for a one off show to celebrate disc jockey Pierre Robert's 20th anniversary at local rock radio station WMMR, the first major station to ever play The Hooters back in the early 1980s.

* Balboa ( band ), a hardcore band from Philadelphia

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

On July 13, 1985, the band made a stop in Philadelphia ( en route to a show in Milwaukee ) to play at the US Leg of Live Aid, which broke a record for number of viewers.

The band visited cities such as Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia, but their intended destination was New York City, where they played at Gerde's Folk City and Maxwell's.

* Witch Hunt ( band ), an anarcho-punk band from Philadelphia

The recording session almost failed to take place because the band was traveling on a ferry that got stuck on a sandbar en route to New York from Philadelphia.

It is also known as a " hooter ," from which the Philadelphia band drew its name.

Finally, The Philadelphia Jug Band have been playing authentic classic jug band music virtually unchanged for over 45 years.

Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia.

There are also band concerts, fireworks, and Movies on the Bay, held at the Centennial Gazebo and Gardens located at Philadelphia Avenue and the bayfront.

It has been the launching pad for one Philadelphia based band Blackthorne.

Geldof was apparently not happy about The Hooters being tacked onto the bill as the opening band in Philadelphia.

Magid, promoting the concert through Electric Factory Concerts, argued that the band was hugely popular in Philadelphia, despite their first major label album Nervous Night being released less than three months beforehand.

The band was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1967 by Todd Rundgren ( lead guitar ) and Carson Van Osten ( bass guitar ).

His tenure with Williams was terminated one night in January 1945, when he got separated from the band after a Philadelphia dance engagement and was apprehended, drunk, by railroad police inside a station.

Giblin made his debut with Simple Minds at Live Aid in Philadelphia, where the band performed " Don't You ( Forget About Me )", a new track called " Ghostdancing " and " Promised You a Miracle ".

Simple Minds were the first band to be approached to play the Philadelphia leg of Live Aid.

Mikimoto took advantage of every opportunity to personally promote his pearls, and took part in the 1926 Philadelphia World Exposition in which he displayed a replica of the " Liberty Bell " covered with pearls.

There was a young Englishman who had a farm on Hamilton Avenue just above Philadelphia Road which was covered with beautiful roses.

Hall & Oates covered Elton John's " Philadelphia Freedom " on the 1991 John / Taupin tribute album " Two Rooms ", saying in the booklet, " We chose ' Philadelphia Freedom ' because the music is so close to our hearts, and the lyrics represent the way we feel about Philadelphia.

* Thomas Mill Bridge ( across the Wissahickon Creek, the only traditional covered bridge in Philadelphia ).

The band also covered " I Don't Care About You " during its May 18, 1998, performance at the TLA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Since then, media coverage has grown to the point where every one of the major Philadelphia television stations has covered the event.

:* 1988 NFC Divisional Playoff: Bears 20, Philadelphia Eagles 12 ( this game is best remembered as the Fog Bowl, where dense fog covered the stadium, reducing visibility down to 15 – 20 yards.

ABC's deal covered all of the teams except the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies ( who had their own television deals ) and called for two regionalized games on Saturdays, Independence Day, and Labor Day.

As W2XBS, the station scored numerous " firsts ", including the first televised Broadway drama ( June 1938 ), live news event covered by mobile unit ( a fire in an abandoned building in November 1938 ), live telecast of a Presidential speech ( Franklin D. Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair ), the first live telecasts of college and Major League Baseball ( both in 1939 ), the first telecast of a National Football League game ( also in 1939 ), the first telecast of a National Hockey League game ( early 1940 ), and the first network telecast of a political convention ( the 1940 Republican National Convention, held June 24 – 28 in the Philadelphia Civic Center ).

After working in the Journal's Philadelphia and Montreal bureaus, Sansweet was transferred to Los Angeles, where he covered the gaming industry, aerospace, banking, and Hollywood.

The state radio network primarily serves several areas of New Jersey that were not covered by the Philadelphia and New York City public radio stations.

The extensive work of creating these grade separation projects was extensively covered in the Proceedings of the Engineers ' Club of Philadelphia ( volume 16, page 1 ) in " Pennsylvania Avenue Subway and Tunnel " based on a paper read by George Webster on October 15, 1898 and in the Journal of the Engineers Society of Pennsylvania ( volume 8, page 303 ) in an article titled " Grade Separation — Two Distinct Methods " based on a paper delivered on November 16, 1916 by Samuel Wagner, Chief Engineer of the P & R.

The signal covered the city of Philadelphia, but only a few of the densely populated and affluent suburbs west of the city, leaving it with a smaller potential audience than its competitors.

Kane covered local Philadelphia politics through hosting several public affairs programs.

In 1892 he left that publication and began illustrating for the Philadelphia Press, where he covered various subjects.

The special contained specially selected segments of the concerts, and voice-overs were done by late-night jock Matt Cord from WMMR Philadelphia, who also covered the event via radio.

WSJI, known as South Jersey's Inspiration, was a non – commercial Contemporary Christian radio station that covered a wide radius around the Cherry Hill, NJ area, including Philadelphia.

It has been covered by artists and groups including Vin Garbutt ( who includes it in his live repertoire ), the late John Wright, Marie Little, Gilly Darbey and the Philadelphia Gay Men's Choir.

He has also worked at a number of television stations: WCVF, Fredonia, NY ; WZIR, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY ; WDOE, Dunkirk, NY ; WNMB, North Myrtle Beach, SC ; WCSC-TV, Charleston, SC ; KPRC-TV, Houston, TX ; WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, PA. Lake has covered news events throughout New York State, North and South Carolina, Texas and Mexico, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.