JIM LADD - Famed L.A. Disc Jockey Who Inspired TOM PETTY Song "The Last DJ" Dead At 75

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Billboard is reporting that groundbreaking Los Angeles-based disc jockey Jim Ladd, whom Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers immortalized in their 2002 song “The Last DJ,” died suddenly Sunday of a heart attack. He was 75. A Los Angeles fixture, Ladd worked up and down the Los Angeles radio dial. He...

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