Dick Biondi doc comes to the Lake to celebrate rock DJ

Film poster for The Voice That Rocked America: The Dick Biondi Story Credit: Provided Anyone who grew up with a transistor radio under their pillow in the early 1960s in Chicago or anywhere in the entire Midwest for that matter remembers Dick Biondi.  Chicago would have more than a few exceptionally talented and engaging radio personalities over the decades, but Biondi holds a special place in Chicago radio history, and in the hearts and imagination of his now aged listeners. The “Wild I-tralian” ushered in a new era in Chicago radio as rock ‘n’ roll music, already popular with Elvis Presley, was about to explode as the Beatles and the British Invasion swept through America  Biondi was there front and center. Before most people in America knew the Beatles existed, he was the first American DJ to play a Beatles record on air; Please Please Me, in late February 1963. A couple months after being fired from a lower watt station in Buffalo, New York in the spring of 1960, Bi