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a little bit back in those days. You’d have
had to catch him playing folk music
on the guitar with Takiff around Penn’s
campus. Wilen studied political science at
Penn, working as the managing editor of
the Daily Pennsylvanian, and once really
thought he would become a lawyer. But
at Penn Law, writing briefs and doing
research, he just couldn’t see himself
doing something he found so ... boring.

He was a guy who took part in the
March on Washington and, in his words,
“thought that rock ’n’ roll was going to
change the world.”
“It was not for me,” he said.

So he ditched law school and started
freelance writing; he’d previously worked
as a stringer for the Philadelphia Inquirer
and, using some contacts he kept there,
he started up again, supplementing that
with work for the Daily News. Leveraging
that, he even got to write a bit for
Rolling Stone.

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Wilen pitched WMMR on
producing radio concerts,
to which they quickly agreed.

First on the list was
Paul Fishkin, a
“nice Jewish boy.”
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It was around this time that Wilen
found himself at a party at Larry Magid’s
house, listening to Elton John talk about
radio concerts. It hit him right there.

“I said, ‘Holy sh--, I can do this,’”
Wilen said.

Wilen pitched WMMR on producing
radio concerts, to which they quickly
agreed. First on the list was Paul Fishkin,
a “nice Jewish boy,” Wilen said, who was
also Upper Darby native Todd Rundgren’s
manager. Billy Joel’s “Cold Spring Harbor” came
out in 1971 to little fanfare, and was barely
getting played on WMMR. But Wilen had
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