When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.
Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.
I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.
If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.
I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older.
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.