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Steinberg, Marsha, 85, 87
Stern, Howard, 79, 248–250, 268, 271, 273–274, 302, 305; advertising on show, 272, 293; commercial load on show, 271–272; effect on WBCN, 276, 305; Mike Colucci incident, 249; promotions with Stern show sidekicks, 273–274
Strick, Steve, 140, 156, 206, 227; passed over as program director, leaves WBCN, 302, 306–307; record label relations, 296, 300
strike at WBCN, 123–143
St. Thomas, Kurt, 238–239
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 51–52
Tank, 137–138, 191–192, 215, 217, 259–262, 264–265
Taylor, Fred, 96, 97–98
Taylor, Marlin, 18
Teper, Melissa. See DJ Melissa
Thomas, Mike, 308–309, 311
Thompson, Hunter S., 151
Top 40 radio, 9–12, 108, 119, 161, 163, 234, 297, 319; lampooned on the “Big Mattress,” 83; “Cousin Brucie” WABC, 11; rejected by Ray Riepen, 20–21; WBZ-FM, 103–104; WRKO, 43. See also Ginsburg, Arnie; WCOZ
Toucher and Rich, 308, 311, 317
Traxler, Lisa, 175, 177, 221, 225–226, 228, 237, 242–243
turkey drops. See Drop era at WBCN
Twenty-fifth WBCN anniversary party at Hard Rock Café, 246–248
Ullman, Debbie, 45–46, 49, 63–65, 67, 82
Uncle T, 41–43
underground radio, 9, 12–13, 31
United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America (UE), 73, 85, 124–133, 140
U2, 167–170, 266–267
van drop. See Drop era at WBCN
Van Halen, 228, 232
Vaprin, Dinah, 82, 85–87, 205, 207. See also feminism at WBCN
Vaughan, Stevie Ray, 218–219
Viacom, 294, 296–297, 299, 300
Vietnam War, 11, 23, 48–49, 91, 205–206. See also Laquidara, Charles: Underground Camera/Honeywell-Pentax incident and trial; politics on WBCN
WAAF, 235, 247, 257, 276, 279–282, 286– 290, 291–293, 318
Ward, Mike, 71–72
WBMX, 300, 307, 311, 314, 315
WBZ-FM, 103–104
WCOZ, 99–100, 104–108, 109–110, 114, 119–120, 123, 140, 154–155; as “Kick-Ass Rock and Roll,” 143–144, 159, 161–163
Weather Underground, 51–53
WEEI-FM, 154–155
Wellington, Dave, 302–305, 307–308
West, Billy, 164, 175–180, 243
WFNX, 235–239, 277, 279, 284, 297, 301, 318
Whitman, Sherman, 212, 243–246
Who, the, 6, 9, 27, 36, 211, 218, 254; at Boston Garden 1976, 107–108
Wiener, Michael, 124–129, 132, 135, 138–141, 143–145, 184–185; buying radio stations, 159, 182, 222; hiring Mel Karmazin, 182, 184–185
Williams, John Taylor, 93–94
Winer, Norm, 49–51, 60–61, 64, 74, 82, 85–87; leaving WBCN, 100–101; love of Monty Python, 94–95; negotiations with sales department over ads, 92–93; as Old Saxophone Joe, 90–91; on resisting Aerosmith, 99
Wohlman, Dave, 175, 177
Wolf, Peter, 21–27, 29, 34–37, 39, 74, 135–136; with the Hallucinations, 6, 21–23, 34, 36
Wong, Matthew, 138, 145
Wood, Anngelle, 173–174, 312
Woodstock ’94, 256–257
WZLX, 234, 257, 267, 270–271, 273, 308–309, 318; CBS purchases, 250–252; Roth, David Lee audition, 306–307
Young, Jesse Colin, 150
Zappa, Frank, 2, 4, 44, 87, 89, 150