What made Wolfman Jack great?

[Sweetpea]

The pirate radio stations of the 1960s are part of British pop folklore, but America had its equivalents broadcasting from the border with Mexico. And its most celebrated star DJ was the near-mythical Wolfman Jack.

Every DJ has their "radio persona" - a larger than life personality created to reach across the ether and plant itself in the imagination of the listening faithful. The most outrageous - from America's Howard Stern to Britain's Chris Moyles - have come to be known as shock jocks.

The daddy of them all is Wolfman Jack, the most outlandish, most thrilling and most elliptical disc jockey of the American 1960s.

Immortalised in George Lucas' breakthrough movie American Graffiti, the Wolfman derived from an era when radio's disembodied voice could be almost mesmeric. His influence on radio today can still be heard... you just need to know what to listen for.

BBC NEWS | Magazine | What made Wolfman Jack great?


Anybody else remember this great man, I do. Memories!

[poppy]

I know of him but I never actually heard him