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Consulting editor, Gavin Magazine, San Francisco. Author of Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons and The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio.
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As a Top 40 deejay in Philadelphia and San Francisco, “Big Daddy” Tom Donahue opened his show with a self-spoofing line: “I’m here to clean up your face and mess up your mind.” But it was on the FM band in the late 1960s and ’70s that Donahue changed the face—and sound—of radio. Along with a handful of others, Donahue invented free-form rock radio, in which hipster disc jockeys with a broad knowledge of music—usually extending beyond rock and into rhythm and blues, blues, jazz, folk, and country—played and said whatever they wanted. Beginning at a lowly FM station, KMPX ...(100 of 197 words)

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