The music promoter, nightclub owner, and disc jockey was the founder of GNP Crescendo Records.

The veteran news anchor serves as co-host of Good Day New York on WNYW, Fox's New York City affiliate.

Considered one of the architects of rock and roll, the guitarist and bandleader is most notable for his solo on Bill Haley and the Comets' landmark recording of "Rock Around the Clock".

A list of fun facts about some of the people and programs that came to define radio's Golden Age.

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An up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Conway, Arkansas, Gavin Harper has been nominated as one of the top three performers in the Hot Springs area two years in a row.

The two-time Oscar nominee was best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the hit movie Rebel Without a Cause. He was brutally stabbed to death in 1976 at age 37.

The TV actor is best known for starring as lovable outlaw Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith on the hit Western Alias Smitn and Jones, and for his tragic suicide in 1971 at the age of just 31.

Though his career was cut short by death, the country music singer attained success both during his lifetime and posthumously.

Considered one of the greatest rappers of all time, the onetime drug dealer skyrocketed to fame in the mid-1990s but was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1997 at the age of 24.

The Irish-born musician and singer-songwriter achieved worldwide fame as lead singer of the Cranberries but waged lifelong personal struggles and died in 2018 from drowning due to alcohol intoxication at the age of 46.