Jim Ladd, free-form radio trailblazer, is dead at 75
Jim Ladd, a maverick Los Angeles disc jockey who helped pioneer free-form FM radio in the 1970s, and who went on to become a rock institution and an i
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Jim Ladd, a maverick Los Angeles disc jockey who helped pioneer free-form FM radio in the 1970s, and who went on to become a rock institution and an i
An institution of the airwaves in Los Angeles and beyond, he capitalized on the freedom the FM band offered in the 1970s to blaze his own path.
Jim Ladd, the DJ and producer who championed classic rock and interviewed many of the rock era's top artists in his Los Angeles studios, has died.
Uncle Joe Benson remembers his late FM radio colleague, 'It's very sad.'
Jim Ladd, the longtime Los Angeles FM deejay known as “The Lonesome L.A. Cowboy” who had hosted a SiriusXM show for 12 years and was the inspiration for Tom…