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There may be radio listeners who think all disk jockeys ought to be in jail. But in Angola, La., two DJs have started their careers behind bars. Big Brother Amin and the Duke of L.A., who broadcast five days a week from Station KLSP, are both armed-robbery convicts. Their target audience is also captive: the 4,645 inmates of Angola's 18,000-acre prison farm. The call letters for KLSP stand for Louisiana State Penitentiary, the "incarceration station" that is the only prisoner-run radio...
...reports. They also play musical requests. Among the favorites: Jailhouse Rock and Chain Gang. The station will soon include a weekly program on legal topics like recent Supreme Court decisions. "It's entertaining, educational and a way to get information quickly to inmates," says Assistant Warden Roger Thomas. The DJs eventually plan to broadcast performances by prison bands. Says the Duke: "Some people think everybody in here is a slimy killer, but we've got some really talented cats." Just in case of trouble, the wardens have three separate control switches that can shut the station down...
...dancers are milling around--some are sitting, but a surprising number are still on their feet. Our first intersession also brings two lucky winners door prizes: a gift certificate for Ruggles Pizza (won by #689) and two Sack Theater passes (won by #22). But all too soon the DJs start spinning their records and, hurriedly gulping one more cup of diet soda, we bounce back to the floor...
...resistance to my ideas, initially," reflects the Police's intense, bespectacled manager Miles Copeland. "A&M didn't want to release 'Roxanne' as a single. They told me the way it was done in America is you release the album and take the single when the DJs tell you what to play. I said we know what we want as the single and we don't want a DJ at some s--tass AOR station telling us what we know is right...
...example, the real inaugural ball for the new building was held a week before the dedication. This blow-out featured almost 400 students, faculty and staff members rocking out to great music and enjoying student DJs, light shows, a hand-held camera to transport dancing bodies to the Forum's giant TV screen, movies and cartoons, free beer and soft drinks, a bubble machine, and so forth. It certainly wasn't "elitist," although we couldn't invite the whole University to join...