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...fellow KFI talk host Geoff Edwards denounced his tactics as "fascist" and refused to air his promotional spots. Edwards lost his job as a result. "You've got a lot of people with questionable credentials manipulating people's emotions," he gripes. "A guy who was a rock-'n'-roll deejay last week ((might be)) calling for the bombing of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bugle Boys Of the Airwaves | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Since last summer, Charles Laquidara has interrupted his rock-'n'-roll rap on Boston's WBCN-FM to urge commuters to boycott Shell Oil. Pointing out that an affiliate of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group supplies fuel to South Africa's army and police, the deejay has persuaded more than 1,000 listeners to cut up their Shell credit cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APARTHEID PROTESTS: Strike Up The Boycott | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...breakthrough American record, a splendid, island-tinged version of Neil Diamond's 1968 Red Red Wine. This is the same song UB40 couldn't put over five years ago. By one of those odd combinations of luck and fluke that make the music business so curious, + J.J. Morgan, a deejay at KKFR-FM in Phoenix, played the tune during a show in May, and, he reports, "within 24 hours, Red Red Wine was our most requested song. We didn't intend to make it a hit. It just happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reggae's Bulgarian Acrobats UB40 eases onto the chart tops with an old hit | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Simpson says that Harvard's academic reputation also attracted her to the campus. "The college itself is beautiful, and the location is great," says the potential philosophy concentrator, "but what really impressed me was the variety of courses offered." Simpson says that she may also work as a deejay for the campus radio station, WHRB...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: The Aspirations of Five Fresh Freshmen | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than this! If this isn't the right part, then there's nothing. I'll be doing game shows. I'll be saying ((and here he imitates Sajak)), 'Show me the vowels!' I'll be playing third hunchback in the musical of Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playtime For Gonzo | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

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