Health problems made him retire over a decade ago, but the legend of Jay Marvin continues after his death.
Jay Marvin at a poetry reading in 2014, during a rare public appearance following the illness that forced him to retire from radio.at age seventy, is among the most courageous people I've had the honor of meeting. But the way he navigated his broadcasting career is only part of the reason he retains a special place in my heart.
By the time he was a sophomore in high school, Marvin was heavily into self-medication."You name the drug and I did it," he recalled."I even snorted heroin. And I drank. I'd do things like going to the dinner table on acid, because I couldn't handle my family. In short, I was just very hostile and didn't fit in — and I hated my household. My mission in life was to get out of there.
In 1973, Marvin made a demo tape that landed him a gig playing country music at a station in Del Rio, Texas. But the job was only a pit stop; he skipped from one lousy position to another throughout the decade. Around this time, he married a woman as dedicated to substance abuse as he was, and although the relationship produced a daughter, Rachel, who was among the loves of his life, he didn't find wedded bliss until betrothal number two.
When Marvin left WLS in 1996 to take the a position at KHOW in Denver, rumors circulated that he had been fired, but he insisted that wasn't so. He said he left on his own after WLS was sold to ABC, a network owned by the Walt Disney Company, which he charged with censoring controversial hosts.
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