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  Rodney Bingenheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rodney Bingenheimer, born December 15, 1946 in Mountain View, California, is a radio disc jockey on a well-known Los Angeles rock station, KROQ.
Bingenheimer was also responsible for three Rodney on the ROQ compilation albums on Posh Boy Records.
Bingenheimer has a booth named for him at Canter's deli in Los Angeles.
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 DIG Internet Radio - Rodney Bingenheimer - DJ To The Stars
As Bingenheimer takes a tour around his humble suburban house - the most notable part of which is the lounge room with his souvenirs - he points to the photos of him taken with celebrities, invitations to stars' parties, letters from JFK and Brigitte Bardot and even Elvis Presley's driving licence.
Bingenheimer's reputation is based on the fact that he was the first notable DJ to play records by and interview people such as Blondie, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Cramps, The Clash, The Cure, The Smiths, Teenage Fan Club, Sonic Youth (he even recorded a single with Thuurston Moore) and many others.
Bingenheimer's gift - and this is true of all the legendary DJ's both here and overseas - was his ability to find and promote not just new music but new music that was cutting edge and that would also often signal some sort of change in the whole scene (and occasionally even society itself).
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 Rodney Bingenheimer: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rodney appeared on the Monkees' TV series as a regular guest, and was Davy Jones' stand-in when he was a kid.
In the 70's Rodney made his name as a national columnist for "Go" and "Phonograph Record" magazines; and he also operated and co-owned his club, "Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco", an L.A. club where Bowie, Iggy Pop, T.Rex, Suzi Quatro, Led Zeppelin, and the Sweet where all regulars.
Rodney even recorded a single with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Eric England of Hole called "I Hate the 90's" produced by Cameron Jamie.
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 Rodney Bingenheimer - Classic Rock
Following Rodney's refusal to oblige a publisher's request to dish the dirt on his celebrity friends, the book idea was abandoned in favour of the documentary.
The vision of Rodney sipping matzo ball soup with a Nazi-attired Keith Moon is as unlikely as it is indelible.
Bingenheimer, the only child of a marriage that ended when he was three, would hole up in his room mesmerized by the glamour and joy promised by the sleeves of the Cameo-Parkway label and artists such as Bobby Rydell and Dee Dee Sharpe.
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 Peter Pan of sunset strip - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Rodney Bingenheimer is doing what he does best: reeling off a list of noteworthy names.
Bingenheimer has a Zelig-like ability to position himself at the elbow of the famous (rich, in itself, doesn't interest him), a diminutive figure with a mop of dark hair, a chalky complexion and eyes that seem to light up with genuine affection when alongside the well-known.
Bingenheimer's main problem with the movie, over which he had no right of veto, is that it portrays his home as an overcrowded hoarder's haven.
www.theage.com.au /news/Music/Peter-Pan-of-sunset-strip/2005/05/12/1115843298783.html   (772 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mayor of the Sunset Strip: DVD: George Hickenlooper,Cher,Courtney Love,Nancy Sinatra,David Bowie,Alice ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bingenheimer seems hesitant to put any but the most positive spin on his troubled family relationships and his ephemeral friendships with stars and those who want to get close to them.
The ongoing photograph montages of Rodney posing with an A-Z roster of every major seminal rock figure in the genre's history began to remind me of Woody Allen's Alfred Zelig, a nondescript milquetoast who could morph his appearance to match whomever he was with at the time.
Rodney himself remains a cypher; in one scene he fidgets nervously and begs the director to turn off the camera when the questions get too "close".
www.amazon.ca /Mayor-Sunset-Strip-George-Hickenlooper/dp/B00026L93Y   (781 words)

  
 Rodney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rodney Bingenheimer (born 1946), a radio disc jockey
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 His claim to fame is his passion for it - The Boston Globe
Bingenheimer -- the subject of a new documentary called "Mayor of the Sunset Strip," which opened Friday -- is a longtime disc jockey at KROQ-FM, where his uncanny feel for cool music has made him one of the country's most influential DJs.
Bingenheimer got the Sex Pistols, but he also gets Coldplay; he was the first commercial radio host in the United States to spin discs by both.
In a town enchanted with artifice and a culture obsessed with celebrity, Bingenheimer's simple, powerful urge to be close to the stars is the driving force of his life story, and the overarching theme Hickenlooper explicates with gentle brutality.
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 Rodney Bingenheimer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rodney Bingenheimer, born in 1947 in Mountain View, California, is a Los Angeles disc jockey on radtio station KROQ.
He has been a fixture in rock and roll circles since the mid-1960s, when he was a double for Davy Jones on the TV show The Monkees.
In the early 1970s he owned a nightclub called Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
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 Metroactive Music | Rodney Bingenheimer
He's the mayor of the Sunset Strip, sort of, and now that the Rodney Bingenheimer documentary, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, is out on DVD, you, too, can be in the know.
Bingenheimer's story speaks of the true and slippery nature of fame, as well as the shifting forces that determine what music lovers hear and what we don't.
In the early '70s, Rodney ran a tiny club on the Strip called Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, and during the peak of the glam years, all kinds of drugs and sexual debauchery raged there as parades or rock stars traversed the itty-bitty dance floor to reach the even itty-bittier VIP booth.
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 Amazon.com: Mayor of the Sunset Strip: DVD: Rodney Bingenheimer,Sonny Bono,David Bowie,Christopher Paul Carter,Elvis ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rodney seems too nice to be contrarian, so at times he seems to roll with the director's leading tones, or else stays silent.
Everybody who was anybody knew and adored Rodney, and, after he landed a gig as DJ at L.A.'s KROQ in the 1970`s, he gave many struggling alternative artists their first real toehold on the radio, playing their records at a time when no other disc jockeys would touch them.
Rodney's life becomes the forum for reliving all those exciting moments in which this parade of beautiful and talented people came to define the culture and eras of which they were a part.
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 Mayor of the Sunset Strip Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Also on hand as Bingenheimer's witnesses are childhood friends, his remote father and stepmother, and his famous friends, including Bowie, Cher, Brooke Shields, Alice Cooper, Ray Manzarek, and Doors biographer Danny Sugarman.
Bingenheimer emerges as a solitary, even lonely figure, and one who has never gotten financially enriched the way the bands he helped make famous have.
Yet while he basks in the spotlight as "Rodney on the ROQ," the portrait that emerges of Bingenheimer is of a man forever alone in the crowd, whether he's hanging out backstage or paying an awkward visit to his elderly father and his second family.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- The last DJ
It also examines the unending allure of fame and Bingenheimer's perpetual friend-of-the-stars status (he's aptly described as "the Zelig of rock 'n' roll"), as well as probing his often lonely personal life and cringe-inducing relationship with his distant father and other emotionally remote family members.
The singer-turned-actress notes that she never had to worry about Bingenheimer exploiting their friendship for personal gain, a frequent occurrence in a city where the mere proximity to fame has fueled many threadbare careers.
This doesn't mean Bingenheimer doesn't enjoy his proximity, or the sense of belonging it gives him, just that he hasn't taken advantage of it.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040409-9999-m1c9rodney.html   (1356 words)

  
 Rodney Bingenheimer - AOL Music
Rodney "on-the-'Roq" Bingenheimer, is one of the best known disc jockeys in the...
In short, the key to Rodney Bingenheimer's success is his Janus-like...
In the early 1970s he owned a nightclub called Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, located on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, near to his various Curson...
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 Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rodney began his career as a professional hanger-on when he got hired to play Davy Jones' double in "The Monkees"—although aside from the height and hair, he really doesn't resemble Davy Jones at all.
And when Michael Des Barres speaks of Rodney's success with women, he declares that the guy had a "posse of p*****." This fact is remembered fondly by the beyond middle-aged Rodney in the film…I found that scene particularly hilarious.
In the 80s, Rodney was able to establish himself as a DJ who brought the latest and greatest music to Southern California.
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 LA Weekly - A Man Out of Time
Rodney claims to be satisfied with his life, and he deserves to be.
In fact, while Rodney may be the amusing old geezer around the KROQ studios, he plays far more brand-new stuff than you’ll hear at any other hour on KROQ — a station that touts itself as the paragon of youth culture.
Rodney Bingenheimer may have been the most popular man in music, but, in a sense, he’s also become the most isolated.
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 Starlight Memories - Daily Nexus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rodney Bingenheimer is one of those names that, almost purely by its syllabic overload, seems properly suited to a larger-than-life character.
The irony of it all, though, is that Bingenheimer himself is relatively pint-sized with a humble, soft voice one would rarely equate with a legendary radio god.
Rodney Bingenheimer: It all started, I guess, with [producer] Chris Carter from Dramarama, a band I first played on my show that became very big from that.
www.ucsbdailynexus.com /artsweek/2004/6760.html   (1202 words)

  
 FILM : RODNEY BINGENHEIMER-THE MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP in
Ieri sera ho visto questo film-documentario su Rodney Bingenheimer, un mitico disc-jockey di Los Angeles.
Rodney e` circondato da stelle del rock, ma il suo senso di solitudine e` terrificante, ti attanaglia all`uscita dal cinema e non ti lascia per un po`.
C`e` un personaggio texano che appare a meta` film, un tipo che si trasferisce a LA in cerca di fortuna, non dico altro, mia moglie era in lacrime, e io avevo un bruscolino nell`occhio, sono momenti di una tristezza devastante.
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 Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His "Zelig" with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenheimer
Bingenheimer was the subject of George Hickenlooper's latest doc, "The Mayor of Sunset Strip." Photo by Brian Brooks/indieWIRE.
Rodney transformed his personality from the time he was at Denny's to when he walked into his apartment...
Rodney is a very sweet, selfless human being and that's one of the reasons he's survived so long in this business.
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 Willamette Week Online | Screen | REVIEW/INTERVIEW | Little Big Man • Meet Rodney Bingenheimer, Hollywood's ...
Amid that scene, Bingenheimer began befriending stars like Nancy Sinatra, Phil Spector and Sonny and Cher, the last of whom he became so close to that the couple came to think of Bingenheimer like a son.
Later, Bingenheimer became a DJ for legendary Los Angeles radio station KROQ (he remains there today, although relegated to the wee hours), where he was the first to play a stunning array of bands from '70s punk acts to, more recently, Oasis and No Doubt.
Indeed, that selflessness has a price, as we see Bingenheimer return home from his glamorous life by proxy to a lonely, sad existence defined largely by the mementos on his wall--although admittedly having Elvis' driver's license is pretty cool.
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 hackwriters.com - Mayor of Sunset Strip - Dan Schneider on the life of Rodney Bingenheimer
Pushing 60, Rodney’s life is a mess - he lives in a dingy apartment, laced with memorabilia from celebrities such as Brooke Shields, Cher, and many others, yet his life is pitiable.
One senses this moment, which Rodney didn’t want filmed, is perhaps the last gasp of humanity in a man reduced to a dull human patina, lacking the wit of an Andy Warhol to post-modernize his vapidity.
Rodney’s lone uniquity seems to be that his cipher makes him a fawning funhouse mirror to insecure celebrities- whose gravitation towards him is perfectly understandable.
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 The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003): Rodney Bingenheimer, David Bowie, Gwen Stefani, George Hickenlooper
Bingenheimer himself is an anomaly; an uber fan and passionate lover of music who seems content to share his enthusiasm with whomever will listen rather than get wrapped up in the backstabbing, two-faced dealings that often accentuate a life in entertainment.
This is supposed to be a person with whom Rodney has had a lifelong relationship with and she can't remember a pivotal moment that she was a part of.
Eventually she is asked how she feels towards Rodney and she blankly states that they are just friends, she needs to focus on her music career, and that she has a boyfriend.
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 Rodney Bingenheimer Posters - Online poster store, best Rodney Bingenheimer posters gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 "Rodney Bingenheimer; Mayor of the Sunset Strip" - Message Board - ezboard.com
I just finished watching a movie entitled "Mayor of the Sunset Strip," a movie/documentary about Rodney Bingenheimer, the legendary disc jockey who was very influential in the music business back in the 70's and 80's and helped put the L.A. radio station, KROQ on the map.
Bingenheimer was a curious little guy enamored with show business, music and the limelight.
Ironically, this is the gal that in a scene before, Bingenheimer spoke of possibly settling down with.
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 Rodney Bingenheimer News
Case in point, infamous radio host and hit predictor RODNEY BINGENHEIMER is set to get a star with HIS name on it on the Hollywood Walk of...
When I stumbled across this photo of the dashing DJ Rodney Bingenheimer with his adoring fans, I decided to assemble a group of groupie-related MP3s to accompany...
If Rodney Bingenheimer is the Rock 'n Roll Mayor of Sunset Strip, Norm Hill is the Obscure Film Ambassador of Seattle.
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 This Forum Is Closed :: View topic - User Name Stuff/Who Is Rodney Bingenheimer?
Rodney's got a mop top and has gotta be around 76.
Rodney was Davy Jones' stand-in on the Monkees TV show.
Rodney on the Roqs on KROQ like once a week at some impossible hour.
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