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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki
AFN was one of my medium-wave nighttime favourites
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I went to work in Germany in 1980 along with a load of other English people. AFN was the only "english" station which was readily available and everyone had their radios tuned to it and the TVs converted to receive AFN TV. I hated it. It was just so American.
They couldn't just play music. Every record had to have something special about it. The first record that got to number one in 1978, the first record with "baby" in the title released in 1976 and so on. I'm sure I would have strangled Casey Kasem if I had ever met him. (Recently there were suggestions that his death was "unlawful" so maybe someone did).
I soon discovered Süd West Funk which was a million times better (Neue deutsche Welle and all that). Even Kenny Everett discovered it and praised its "ultra stark Welle".