Disc jockeys
Sugar Hills Records Launched the Rap Revolution
Fresh Air rock historian Ed Ward takes a look at the record label, which emerged as a subsidiary of All Platinum Records. It promoted rap music soon after it first emerged in New York nightclubs.
The Most Important D. J. In England.
Rock historian Ed Ward profiles English disc jockey John Peel.
Disc Jockey Alan Freed Brought Black Music to the Radio.
Rock historian Ed Ward profiles Alan Freed, one of the most famous, and most notorious, disc jockeys of the 50s and 60s. Freed was one of the first disc jockeys on a mainstream station (WJW in Cleveland) to play the black rhythm and blues that was the foundation of early rock and roll.