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Currently a DJ and music director at WZLX in Boston, CARTER ALAN was a DJ at WBCN for nineteen years. He is the author of U2, Outside Is America, and Life on the Road.
"Alan's book traces WBCN's unassuming birth from the ashes of a
classical music station in 1968, through its heyday as the 'Rock of
Boston' in the '70s and '80s, to its demise in 2009, when, Alan
writes, the station was 'drained of its blood in the consolidated
radio industry of the new century.' To recount the story, Alan
interviewed most every personality involved and willing to speak on
the record."-- "Boston Globe"
"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"
"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"
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