Grey Pierson, the Executive Editor of Irving City Digest, has kindly allowed us to reproduce this feature by Conrad Westinghouse, from the June 1980 edition of the magazine, telling how his entrepreneurial father, Don
turned 'Big D' into 'Big L'.

The Day the Music Died

Front cover: Don Pierson, founder of British commercial radio stations Radio London, Radio England and Britain Radio.

Pierson's professional approach to broadcasting resulted in changes at the BBC (which hired many of the Radio LondonDJs) and ultimately created enough pressure to change the British Law which had prevented commercial broadcasting from on land.

On Page 3, Grey Pierson recalls
KLIF in the Sixties