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Overview
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781555538262 |
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Publisher: | Northeastern University Press |
Publication date: | 10/21/2013 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 352 |
Sales rank: | 1,039,130 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword by Steven Tyler
Preface
Thanks
The American Revolution
A Radio Commune
I Read the News Today
Movin’ on Up
Camelot
The Battle Joined
Power to the People
“The Reallllll WBCN, Boston!”
I (Don’t) Want My MTV
Number 1 Rock ’n’ Roll Connection
Camelot Redux
From Boylston Street to Wall Street
Nelson, Howard, and “The Love Shack”
Any Given Sunday, Any Given Weekday
A Bad-Boy Business
Shine on You Crazy Diamond •Afterword
Bibliography
Index
What People are Saying About This
“WBCN welcomed us in those early days; so much so, that Boston became a home away from home for the Allman Brothers Band and for me. ’BCN was truly one of the greatest of American radio stations. I miss those guys.”
“WBCN—four letters that made a big difference to our U and our 2. . . . Without them taking risks on new music, I’m not sure the U2 story would have been the same.”
“To a kid growing up in the suburbs of Boston, WBCN was on the front line of the culture war, with Peter Wolf, Maxanne Sartori, J.J. Jackson, and all the rest bringing us the music that would be the soundtrack to our cause.”
“I hereby certify that Carter Alan’s cast of hippies, freaks, madmen, admen, music fans, leftists, visionaries, new wavers, New Agers, grunge dudes, bluesmen, and especially rock stars and the girls that love them is worthy of a sprawling novel that now doesn’t have to be written because Carter Alan expertly brings it all to life in Radio Free Boston.”