onderscheiding voor Ron O'Quinn

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Great news came from the USA on October 21st: ‘I just wanted to let you all know I was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall Of Fame last evening at an awards banquet in Macon, Georgia. Just goes to show if you live long enough accolades will come your way. Ron o’Quinn.’ As you know Ron worked on the Laissez Faire during Britain Radio and Swinging Radio England days. Congratulations Ron! He grew up in McRae Georgia and began his career when he was in high school at WMGA in Moultrie. After serving in the Army he returned to South Georgia and resumed his radio career at WVLD in Valdosta. He moved to Florida and worked in Daytona Beach, Tampa, and Miami. In 1966 O’Quinn left for England to be program director of a pirate radio station, Swinging Radio England located in the North Sea. It was there he met and toured with the Beatles on their 1966 US Tour. Often in the studio when they were recording, he can be heard coughing on the count in to “Taxmanâ€. Upon returning to England, he was told he had three weeks to get his affairs in order and return to America, unless he left the employ of Radio England. The British Government was imposing restrictions on pirate radio stations so O’Quinn returned to the US and worked at a station in Cincinnati before returning to South Georgia. He hosted an oldies show on a station in Hazlehurst for a number of years and in 2010 began producing a show called Radio England Rewind which is heard on 1395.eu.