Fm: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio - Hardcover

Neer, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679462953 ISBN 13: 9780679462958

Verlag: Villard Books, 2001

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Book by Neer Richard

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A behind-the-scenes history of the golden era of free-form rock-and-roll radio traces its origins, growth, and fall; discusses radio's influence on the early careers of such artists as Bruce Springsteen; and explores the role of DJs in influencing the music world.

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It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of crystal clear power . . . before the days of trashy, hedonistic dumbspeak and disposable three-minute ditties . . . in the days where rock lived at many addresses in many cities."
–from FM

As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York–one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio by rejecting strict formatting and letting disc jockeys play whatever they wanted. He felt that when he got there, he’d have made the big time. Little did he know he’d have shaped rock history as well.

FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio chronicles the birth, growth, and death of free-

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• Verlag: Villard Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679462953
• ISBN 13: 9780679462958
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 367