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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday October 04 2017, @01:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the livin-like-refugees dept.

US rock star Tom Petty, famous for classics such as Free Fallin', Refugee and American Girl, has died at the age of 66.

The singer-songwriter passed away on Monday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, California, spokeswoman Carla Sacks said.

Petty "died peacefully" at 8:40pm (03:40 GMT onTuesday) "surrounded by family, his bandmates, and friends," a statement from his longtime manager Tony Dimitriades said.

More sad news in a week full of sad news.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:07PM (#577152)

    ...and, in the process, told some truths that others wouldn't.

    "The Last DJ" was about L.A. radio personality Jim Ladd who was still doing Free-Form radio.
    Jim's most recent transition was getting fired from KLOS (for being Jim Ladd) where he not being allowed to say goodbye to the folks who had listened to him for years.

    Jim found a gig on satellite radio, but, after that maneuver by ever-more-consolidated Lamestream Media with its narrow, boring playlists and cloned formats, it appears that he was the last[1] of the breed on terrestrial radio.

    Sample lyrics: [songlyrics.com]

    As we celebrate mediocrity
    All the boys upstairs want to see
    How much you'll pay for
    What you used to get for free

    There goes the last DJ
    Who plays what he wants to play
    And says what he wants to say
    Hey, hey, hey

    [1] Well, KOCI-LP (Low Power, 42 Watts), while mostly an automated thing, does this a bit via their FCC-allowed Community Radio station.
    (Sometimes, their signal gets walked all over by KGB in San Diego.)
    KOCI-LP has a live stream, but I really hate everything about their website.
    ...and, specifically, they don't have a what's-playing-now page like all the grownups do.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday October 07 2017, @04:06AM

    by anubi (2828) on Saturday October 07 2017, @04:06AM (#578472) Journal

    Thanks for the link. Tom sure summed up what's happened to radio as us old timers knew it.

    Sure is a different world these days. I guess I'm turning into a rebel as I know it does not have to be the way it is now. These new kids, well they have never seen what we got to see. They have to resort to drugs. And life seems so meaningless. I don't know if I could take being born in the later generation. I feel so frustrated and guilty handing these kids such a heaping plate of excrement, all designed to enrich a few beyond one's wildest imagination, while educating them just to service level, and enslaving them in unpaybackable debt.

    This whole thing stinks to high-heaven.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]