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 ...

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 ...

“Screamin’ Scott” Simon, who played piano in the early-rock revival group Sha Na Na for more than a half-century and co-wrote the song “Sandy” that John Travolta crooned in Grease, died September 5 of ...

There were many college students among the half-million people at Woodstock in the summer of 1969, but, as the drummer for Sha Na Na, John “Jocko” Marcellino - then a freshman at New York's Columbia ...