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Tag: KNX

Salute to American Radio, BBC Radio 1 London | July 4 1976

Nov 26, 2019

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by

Ellis Feaster

in 1000 WCFL, 101.1 KRTH, 102.7 WNEW-FM, 1150 KIIS-AM, 1600 WWRL, BBC Radio 1, Casey Kasem, Jeffrey Troy, Larry Lujack, Wink Martindale, Wolfman Jack

In the mid 1960s, there was nowhere easy for British youngsters to listen to rock ‘n’ rollers like The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. Commercial radio wasn’t yet an option, and the guardians of the publicly-owned British Broadcasting Corporation considered such music immoral, antisocial and unfit for public broadcast. Off shore Pirate stations…