Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN

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Blaring the Cream anthem “I Feel Free,” WBCN went at the air in March 1968 as an experiment in free-form rock at the fledgling FM radio band. It broadcast its final song, Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” in August 2009. In between, WBCN was the musical, cultural, and political voice of the young other people of Boston and New England, sustaining a colourful local music scene that launched such artists because the J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, James Taylor, Boston, the Cars, and the Dropkick Murphys, in addition to paving the way in which for Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, U2, and plenty of others. Along the way in which, WBCN both pioneered and defined progressive rock radio, the dominant format for a generation of listeners. Brilliantly told by Carter Alan—and featuring the voices of station insiders and the artists they loved—Radio Free Boston is the tale of a city; of artistic freedom, of music and politics and identity; and of the cultural, technological, and monetary forces that killed rock radio.

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