Classic & Current Contemporary Non-Schlock-Rock Metropolitan Music

AOR (Album Oriented Rock) Radio — A 1983 Snapshot

AOR Radio 1983 Snapshot — Intro

You may have noticed lately that your favorite rock radio station is playing many more different sounds than it was a year or so ago. Instead of hearing "Free Bird" and "Stairway to Heaven" every day you are hearing "Mexican Radio" and "She Blinded Me With Science." You might find this exciting. You might think this is the end of rock and roll. Welcome to the 1980s.

The proliferation of "modern" music on rock radio is not exclusive to any part of the country, although you will hear more of it in some parts than others. We are experiencing a musical explosion on the American airwaves. Has rock radio finally awaken to the fact that rock music must and will progress? Radio is taking chances again, something it is not done for years. Radio is changing at a faster pace than ever, not only in the music we hear but in the formatics as well.

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