Pete Fornatale News

 
Pete Fornatale Signs Off
Rosyln News
Tom Petty “The Last DJ” On April 26, a seminal voice that was an integral part of the local airwaves was silenced when Port Washington's hometown hero Pete Fornatale died from a stroke at the age of 66. Part of the class of free-form rock DJs whose ...
Letter: Remembering Pete FornataleFloral Park Dispatch

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FM Odyssey Honors Late Progressive Radio Pioneer Pete Fornatale
wfit
By WFIT FM Odyssey honors its fallen hero and dear friend, Pete Fornatale, Sunday, May 20th, from 10 to 1 pm Pete Fornatale, the legendary NY radio personality for 45 years and one of the pioneers of free-form progressive radio, was the inspiration ...


 
A rock jock like no other
NorthJersey.com
By HOLLY STEWART When longtime New York disc jockey Pete Fornatale died suddenly last week at the age of 66, I was unexpectedly moved to tears at the news. It seemed a little silly at the time, crying over the death of someone I didn't know personally, ...
SPECIAL EDITION RR: Pete Fornatale (RIP) Interview With ToddBlogTalkRadio (blog)
Goodman: The golden age of album-rock radioNewsday

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TBJ's Simon & Garfunkel Tribute Show Canceled
Patch.com
By Laura Griffin Because of the recent death of New York radio legend and rock historian, Pete Fornatale, The Simon & Garfunkel tribute show scheduled for Saturday night at Temple B'nai Jeshrun has been canceled. The show was originally supposed to be ...

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Corrections: May 4
New York Times
OBITUARIES An obituary on Friday about the disc jockey Pete Fornatale referred imprecisely to a slogan used by WNEW-FM, where he worked for many years. While the station did adopt a free-form rock format in 1967, it did not begin using the slogan ...


 
Who Do You Like? Betting the Kentucky Derby
Forbes
Peter Thomas Fornatale of The Horseplayer magazine and Unbearable Lightness of Betting blog: My pick for this year's Derby is UNION RAGS. . .to show. I believe he's the fastest horse with the best foundation for this year's race.


 
Library Journal
Nonfiction Previews, November 2012, Pt. 2: Lil Wayne, Downton Abbey ...
Library Journal
Fornatale, Peter & Bernard M. Corbett. 50 Licks: An Album's Worth of Stories from the 50-Year History of the Rolling Stones. Bloomsbury USA, dist. by Macmillan. Nov. 2012. 240p. ISBN 9781608199211. pap. $17. MUSIC Fifty years, 50 cool stories (or ...