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Consulting editor, Gavin Magazine, San Francisco. Author of Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons and The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio.
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“I’m just plain fantastic—the best damn rock-and-roll DJ of our time or any other time!” wrote Larry Lujack, a Chicago radio kingpin in the 1960s and ’70s, in his autobiography, Super Jock (1975). Lujack had the ratings to back up his braggadocio. Sweeping in from Seattle (with a brief, unhappy stop in Boston) in 1967, he bounced between Chicago’s dueling rock stations, WLS and WCFL, which made him the object of high-priced bidding wars until his retirement 20 years later. Lujack was the anti-deejay, offering sarcasm and insults instead of happy talk. But he also prided himself on preparation, so ...(100 of 120 words)

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