Burn, Baby! BURN!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague (Music in American Life) - Hardcover

With his dynamic on-air personality and his trademark cry of "Burn, baby! BURN!" before spinning the hottest new records, Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. In this memoir Montague recounts his momentous radio career, which ran from the era of segregation to that of the civil rights movement. He also tells the broader story of a life spent in the passionate pursuit of knowledge.

A founder of the National Association of Radio Announcers, Magnificent Montague (Nathaniel Montague) has been a disc jockey, a radio station owner, and a major collector of black memorabilia. He lives in Las Vegas.

Bob Baker is a staff writer and the former deputy metropolitan editor at the Los Angeles Times and the author of Newsthinking: The Secret of Making Your Facts Fall into Place.