LARadio.com Publisher Don Barrett Dies After Battle with Cancer
Beloved chronicler of Los Angles Radio People, Don Barrett, has died at 81 after a battle with liver cancer.
The message, “In an ordinary instant – cancer has taken LARadio.com,” is posted on the publication’s site – a reference to the writings of author Joan Didion. Barrett was profiled by the LA Daily News last month after he was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer. You can read that piece here. Barrett built the LARadio.com site to promote his Los Angeles Radio People books that sought to “highlight every radio personality who was ever on the local [Los Angeles] airwaves between the years of 1957-1994 (first edition).” Barrett is survived by his wife Cherie (pictured here).