Dewey Phillips - Unknown

Ever more reliant on prescription painkillers following a car accident when he was younger, he slipped into decline and, despite finding other radio openings, Phillips’s on air tomfoolery became harsh and cynical, he was, by the mid sixties, a broken man. He died in his sleep, aged forty two.

Dewey Phillips born May 13, 1926, died September 28, 1968

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