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Rock on, 'Ma' Nugent: Rock star Ted Nugent and other musicians encouraged by his mother, Marion, dedicate a 7,800-pound memorial to her role in the Chicago music scene.
Byline: John Keilman and Amber Ellis
Aug. 2--Rock musician Ted Nugent is known for his frenetic guitar work, bawdy lyrics and bowhunting, but behind the wild life and times of the Motor City Madman has been an unlikely inspiration: his sweet, silver-haired mother.
Vibrant and endlessly supportive, Marion "Ma" Nugent nurtured her son's ferocious music and became an honorary den mother for bands passing through Chicago, advising them from her backstage perch at area clubs and from the pages of a magazine.
The longtime Palatine resident died almost 20 years ago, but she was honored Wednesday with an unusual tribute, the idea of one of those musicians who had become her friend. Eric Kinkel's plan had been to rename a street in the northwest suburb for Ma Nugent, but he settled on perhaps a more fitting memorial: a big, heavy rock.
The 7,800-pound hunk of red Wisconsin granite, into which Ma Nugent's likeness has been…
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- Magazine article from: Sports Afield Ewing, Susan November 1, 1996 700+ words
...keep it up! I keep it up-it-y!" Ted Nugent shouts at me across his French toast...Concord, Michigan. The "Tedquarters" of Ted Nugent World Bowhunters - store fan club, hunting...it is not an act. "People ask me if Ted Nugent is the same in real life as he is on...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Rock on, 'Ma' Nugent: Rock star Ted Nugent and other musicians...
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