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Rock & Roll’s Greatest Hits – All Day! Every Day!
This is a music mix like nothing you’ve even heard (unless you’ve been here before). It’s created by radio professionals who went beyond the “oldies” mentality to provide a blend of the best music from the dawn of rock & roll right though today. You’ll hear greatest hits as well as some gems you might never have heard before from the biggest rock stars of all time.
Give our unique music blend just 60 minutes, we know you’ll be hooked because if you’ve been looking for Rock & Roll Heaven – you’ve found it!
1969: A bored writer for a college newspaper unintentionally starts one of the biggest rock hoaxes of all time.
Fred LaBour is asked to write a review of the new Beatles album Abbey Road for the University of Michigan student newspaper. Instead he turns in a piece he clearly thinks no will take seriously, headlined “McCartney Dead: New Evidence Brought to Light.”
The “Paul Is Dead” furor grows so great, Life magazine actually runs a cover story a few weeks later featuring photos of Paul McCartney, very much alive at his farm in the UK.
1973: NBC debuts its own late night concert show, The Midnight Special, to compete with ABC’s successful In Concert show. Proving that NBC was still clueless about rock & roll, Midnight Special’s first host is that hard rocker, Helen Reddy.
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