Editing Alan Freed (section)

==Later years and death==
[[File:Alan Freed- Lake View Cemetery - 2016 (2).jpg|thumb|right|Freed's gravestone in Cleveland]]

Because of the negative publicity from the payola scandal, no prestigious station would employ Freed, and he moved to the West Coast in 1960, where he worked at [[KDAY]]/1580 in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref name="auto1"/> In 1962, after KDAY refused to allow him to promote "rock and roll" stage shows, Freed moved to [[WQAM]] in [[Miami]], Florida, arriving in August 1962.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/29/archives/alan-freed-to-play-disks-on-miami-station-wqam.html |title=Alan Freed to Play Disks On Miami Station WQAM |date=August 29, 1962 |work=New York Times |access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref> Recognizing that his career in major markets might be over, he drank heavily and the job lasted only two months.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rockabillyhall.com/alanfreed1.html |title=Alan Freed |date=September 27, 1991 |work=Rockabilly Hall of Fame |access-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615090525/http://www.rockabillyhall.com/alanfreed1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

During 1964, he returned to the [[Los Angeles]] area for a short stint at the Long Beach station [[KNOB (defunct)|KNOB]]/97.9.<ref>[http://www.laradio.com/wheref.htm Los Angeles Radio People, Where are They Now?&nbsp;– F], retrieved March 6, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.alanfreed.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/096-Death-Certifct-1-20-65.pdf AlanFreed.Com: death certificate], Alanfreed.com, retrieved March 6, 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reelradio.com/mh/afkday60.html |title=Alan Freed |date=November 27, 1991 |work=Reel Radio |access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref>

Living in the Racquet Club Estates neighborhood of [[Palm Springs, California#Neighborhoods|Palm Springs, California]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Meeks|first1=Eric G.|title=The Best Guide Ever to Palm Springs Celebrity Homes|date=2014|orig-year=2012|publisher=Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe|isbn=978-1479328598|pages=41–43}}</ref> Freed died on January 20, 1965, from [[uremia]] and [[cirrhosis]] brought on by [[alcoholism]], at the age of 43. Prior to his death, the Internal Revenue Service had continued to maintain that he owed $38,000 for tax evasion, but Freed did not have the financial means to pay that amount.<ref name="auto"/>

His body was cremated and his ashes were initially interred in the [[Ferncliff Cemetery]] in [[Hartsdale, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2016/02/alan_freeds_ashes_evicted_from.html|title=Alan Freed's ashes, evicted from Rock Hall, have a final resting place of prominence in Cleveland|first1=James F.|last1=McCarty|first2=The Plain|last2=Dealer|date=March 1, 2016|website=cleveland}}</ref> In March 2002, Judith Fisher Freed, his daughter-in-law, carried his ashes to the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in [[Cleveland, Ohio]].<ref>Vigil, Vicki Blum (2007). ''Cemeteries of Northeast Ohio: Stones, Symbols & Stories''. Cleveland, OH: Gray & Company, Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-59851-025-6}}</ref> On August 1, 2014, the Hall of Fame asked Alan Freed's son, Lance Freed, to remove the ashes permanently, which he did.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/03/showbiz/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-alan-freed/index.html|title=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to remove Alan Freed's ashes|author=Alan Duke|date=August 3, 2014|work=CNN|access-date=November 6, 2014}}</ref> The Freed family later interred his ashes at Cleveland's [[Lake View Cemetery]] beneath a jukebox-shaped memorial featuring Freed's image.<ref>{{cite news|last=Feran|first=Tom|title=Alan Freed, 'father of rock,' gets a memorial in stone|work=The Plain Dealer|date=May 8, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2020|url=https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2016/05/alan_freed_father_of_rock.html}}</ref>