Freddie P's Blog

February 27, 2007 @ 08:32

After nine o'clock I went up the dial to listen to the lovely Joanne Wilder. I like Joanne, we didn't work together for long, but while we did it was fun.

The attached picture is from that special Playboy edition back in 2002 when Wilder took the Canadian radio industry by storm. It was great, and bewildering.

The magazine was released just as MOJO management was having second thoughts about our format so we were instructed not to talk about it. It seemed like such a wasted opportunity. We had a current Playboy model working on the air, and we were called MOJO for crying out loud, but we couldn't take advantage. Oh well.

Anyway I was amused by one of the announcements Joanne made yesterday. The Police have announced a third show for Toronto in November and then she played a Police song.

Talk about the evolution of rock and roll. I remember back in the early 80's Q-107 listeners would often accuse CFNY of playing nothing but "fag" bands and the Police were near the top of that list. And I believe U2 was up there as well.