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Author: Carter Alan
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"From the first note of Cream's "I Feel Free" carried by the FM signal at 104.1 in 1968 to the final note of Pink Floyd's "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" bringing the story to a close in 2009, Alan traces the station's wild ride from its roots as a foundering classical music operation (WBCN stood for Boston Concert Network and employed a young Ron Della Chiesa), to its evolution into a free-form, counterculture outpost, and finally to a tightly controlled, corporate enterprise with two of its most popular, and controversial, shows emanating out of New York City. . . . The fairy tale of WBCN may not have had a happy ending, but Alan tells it with the kind of flair that does its original free-form spirit proud."--Boston Globe
"Incredibly well researched, deeply interviewed, and as close to being 'down the middle' as is possible for a writer who was involved in much of the action."--Arts Fuse
"Carter Alan remembers the first song he played on WBCN, "I've Had Enough" by The Who, from "Quadrophenia." The former 'BCN DJ and current midday man and music director at WZLX remembers much more in his recently released and thoroughly engrossing chronicle, Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN."--Boston Globe
"Incredibly well researched, deeply interviewed, and as close to being 'down the middle' as is possible for a writer who was involved in much of the action."--Arts Fuse
"Carter Alan remembers the first song he played on WBCN, "I've Had Enough" by The Who, from "Quadrophenia." The former 'BCN DJ and current midday man and music director at WZLX remembers much more in his recently released and thoroughly engrossing chronicle, Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN."--Boston Globe
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"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." (Bono)
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{PRETITLE} Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN {POSTTITLE}
I looked forward to the release of this book with great anticipation as I was an avid WBCN listener during my high school and college years in the late 70's and early to mid '80s. From 1982-1984 I was a student at Lesley College in Cambridge, and that is when I was most "involved" with WBCN.
But whether you were a BCN listener or not, if you are interested in the early days of underground FM radio and the conception of album oriented rock, you will LOVE reading this book! I knew that Carter Allen would not disappoint me with his "biography" of the greatest rock radio station in history, ....but this book actually exceeded my already high expectations!
Carter masterfully takes us through the earliest "visions" of Ray Riepen, the first owner of WBCN as a rock radio station back in 1968, to the selection of this unknown group of crazy geniuses with the same vision to spin the records, through the changes as WBCN began to outgrow its audience, to its downfall in 2009.
WBCN was a powerful force among the youth of Boston from its inception in 1968. BCN was not only a radio station that played all the coolest, most upcoming music anywhere, but it was the voice and soul of the young people of Boston! They cared about everything we cared about, and they were not afraid to say it! They knew the BEST new music, they promoted it, we listened to it, and it became huge! BCN taught us to hate top 40 programming! They taught us to listen to and promote the newest local bands. To listen to the BEST cuts on the albums, and not just the 45's that were being played on WRKO!
Carter Allen shows that being a DJ on one of the best radio stations in history is not his only talent!
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