MUSIC: CLEVELAND, OHIO: FOREVER ROCKIN'

AFTER YEARS OF PLANNING, ROCK FINALLY GETS ITS OWN MUSEUM--IN CLEVELAND!

The Tina Turner mannequin still needed a hair tease, and Madonna's gold bustier had yet to be mounted. But James Henke, the chief curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, had a more pressing problem one day last week. Showing a journalist around the museum, he was stopped by a group of workers who were about to install a Jimi Hendrix guitar on the wall. Hendrix, who was left-handed, played right-handed guitars with the strings on upside down. But the guitar they were about to hang was a right-handed one Hendrix had borrowed for...

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