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KROQ TV Ad with Richard Blade

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from KROQ Ad (ca. 1986)
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TV ad circa mid 1980s for KROQ: "Roq of the '80s," a Greater L.A.-based radio station

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ROQ of the 80s

by Karen Tongson

L.A. radio DJ and VJ, Richard Blade (formerly Richard Shepphard of Torquay, England) sold the much heralded "second British pop invasion" to So. Cal kids in the early 1980s through his sets on KROQ and on local TV shows like "Video  One." Blade's own British accent became the gateway for local teens to British New Wave bands, especially the commercially successful ones he names in this ad: Duran Duran, Tears for Fears and Wham! Subsequently, Blade emerged as an important taste-maker in the Southern California region in the 1980s, who also helped brand the renegade radio station, KROQ, while defining So. Cal's suburban youth culture.

Copyright 2010, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. Tongson. (2010, July 29). ROQ of the 80s. Retrieved May 16, 2012, from Critical Commons Web site: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/Tongson/commentaries/roq-of-the-80s. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License