Quinn proclaims Dick Biondi Day to honor DJ
Gov. Pat Quinn will join longtime disc jockey Dick Biondi in his Chicago studio for his 50th anniversary live broadcast.
Quinn will visit Biondi Sunday at the WLS-AM radio studios. He proclaimed Dick Biondi Day in a proclamation on Saturday.
Biondi came to Chicago on May 2, 1960, to work for WLS.
He gained fame by becoming one of the first DJs to play rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. He was the first DJ in the United States to play a Beatles song on the radio in 1963.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honored him in a 1995 exhibit. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1998.
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