Most music fans would agree that Craig Inciardi held the ultimate dream job.

As the founding curator for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame , the man known as the Indiana Jones of rock history spent 30 years traveling the world in search of artifacts to display at the Cleveland shrine to musical excellence.

In “The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Outrageous, Definitive and Untold Story” (Diversion Books, 320 pp., out now), Inciardi weaves fascinating tales of meeting with legends including Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, The Ramones and Debbie Harry to loan personal items to display at the Rock Hall.

He also shares behind-the-scenes drama from many of the induction ceremonies, which began in 1986 under the tutelage of cofounders Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records and Jann Wenner, the architect

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