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I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.
Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.
I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.
Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.
