Wbcn and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll Lichtenstein Bill
Wbcn and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll Lichtenstein Bill How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar,…
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Wbcn and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll Lichtenstein Bill
How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system.While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. WBCN-FM featured album cuts by such artists as the Mothers of Invention, Aretha Franklin, and Cream, played by announcers who felt free to express their opinions on subjects that ranged from recreational drugs to the war in Vietnam. But that changed the following year, when a Harvard Law School graduate student named Ray Riepen founded a radio station that played music that young people, including the hundreds of thousands at Boston-area colleges, actually wanted to hear.
In this engaging chronicle, Peabody Award-winning journalist and one-time WBCN announcer Bill Lichtenstein tells the story of how a radio station became part of a revolution in youth