PASSINGS
Richard Moreland; Disc Jockey, Program Director
Richard Moreland, 55, best known as a disc jockey and program director on Los Angeles radio station KRLA during the 1960s. Moreland, whose tenure was marked by some of KRLA’s highest ratings ever, was also one of the people credited with bringing the Beatles to their first concert in the United States. In Sierra Madre on Sunday of cancer.
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