Burn Baby BURN The Autobiography of by Magnificent Montague PAPERBACK

Burn, Baby! BURN!The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague\nAuthor(s): Magnificent Montague, Bob Baker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252076848, 978-0252076848\nSynopsis\nWith his dynamic on-air personality and his trademark cry of \""Burn, baby! BURN!\"" when spinning the hottest new records, Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. In this memoir Montague recounts the events of his momentous radio career, which ran from the era of segregation to that of the civil rights movement; as he does so, he also tells the broader story of a life spent in the passionate pursuit of knowledge, historical and musical. Like many black disc jockeys of his day, Montague played a role in his community beyond simply spreading the music of James Brown, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and other prominent artists. Mo.