KROQ-FM
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KROQ-FM is a commercial radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, serving Greater Los Angeles. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock format known as "The World Famous KROQ". I
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Rodney Bingenheimer
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Rodney Ray Bingenheimer is an American radio disc jockey who is best known as the host of Rodney on the ROQ, a radio program that ran on the Los Angeles rock station KROQ-FM from 1976 to 2017. In the
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…of punk rock in the late 1970s and new wave, and KROQ quickly became the voice of the burgeoning Los Angeles punk and new wave scene. Disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer introduced many new bands on his show. As punk expanded its hold on the music scene during the mid to late 1970s, and KROQ steadily adding more of it…
Bingenheimer in 2016
Cher noted that Bingenheimer had a certain resemblance to pop star Sonny Bono. They "bonded", with Sonny and Cher becoming almost "surrogate parents" to him.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Bingenheimer helped popularize European group Nena (vocalist Nena pictured in 2008), whose hit song "99 Luftballons" became a hit in the U.S. in 1983.