The decline of FM radio programming and rock and roll just so happened to coincide with the rise of serious talk shows on AM radio. Interesting how that worked...People chose to listen to Rush Limbaugh rather than suffer through the same old shit every hour of every day on the average American FM radio dial. You still had the commercials in there but the top-notch content of the Rush Limbaugh Show made up for all of that, including real time audio-visual interaction with his audience. Rush Limbaugh did usher in a new era for AM radio and some say that he saved it. However, it may also have been due to there being something missing from the music scene, post-Disco. FM radio had a good run for a while there from the late ‘60’s on up to about 1978...After that, something was missing and there was too much other stuff going on around the tunes and the stations’ playlists...A lot of money was being made in the process and it was obvious how the music and the average FM radio station’s “branding” had changed.
Conclusion: Rush Limbaugh was bigger (and better for America) than rock and roll for a good 30 years...Deal with it!
“Conclusion: Rush Limbaugh was bigger (and better for America) than rock and roll for a good 30 years.”
True.
I mean you can only listen to Stairway to Heaven so many times.