3/06/2007

Ageless!


RADIO PERSONALITY RODNEY BINGENHEIMER TO BE HONORED WITH STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME

2,330th Star
7021 Hollywood Boulevard
Friday, March 9, at 11:30 a.m.

Rodney Bingenheimer is one of the best known disc jockeys in the world. His show on Los Angeles' KROQ has been a hit with youth of all ages since it's inception in late 1976, becoming famous for, among other things, the newest and the best rock music for all of L.A.'s "in-crowd" and forward thinking listeners.

In the early 1970s he owned a nightclub called Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, located on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, near his various Curson Street apartments of the past 30 years. It was a favorite hangout of many rock stars and introduced much of Los Angeles to glam rock.

Due to his far reaching connections within the burgeoning Hollywood music scene, Bingenheimer was given a show on the then relatively unknown Pasadena FM and AM radio station KROQ, called Rodney on the Roq, which began in 1976 and continues to the present day, albeit with some changes in time slots.

Rodney was the first to play records by - and interviews with such artists on his KROQ show as: Blondie, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Van Halen, The Go-Go's, Nina Hagen, The Cramps, Nena, The Clash, The Cure, The Smiths, The B-52's, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, Echobelly, Ride, X, Siouxie and the Banshees, Bad Religion, Duran Duran, The Jam, The Bangles, The Runaways, Redd Kross, Bananarama, Joan Jett, Tom Petty, Dramarama, Teenage Fan Club, Suede, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, No Doubt, Blur, Elastica, Belly, L7, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Rialto, Placebo, Oasis, The Verve, Kent, Ash, Gene, Travis, Coldplay, Doves, JJ72, The Strokes, Starsailor, The Hives, The Vines, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and The Electric Soft Parade.

As a Pasadena native currently living in the wilds of Oregon, Waist High would like to say CONGRATULATIONS RODNEY!

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