In a rock-radio era when the great disc jockeys could become iconic local tastemakers, Jerry Lubin was a bona fide star.
Lubin, a pioneer of underground radio best known for his years at Detroit’s freeform WABX-FM, died Thursday morning in Los Angeles. He was 80.
Lubin had been hospitalized since Jan. 25 with COVID-19, his son Ethan Lubin told the Free Press, although a cause of death has not yet been officially declared.
The Detroit native and Mumford High School graduate made his name as one of the progressive station’s “Air Aces” from 1968 through the early 70s, part of a local radio career that included stints at WRIF-FM, WWWW-FM and again at WABX, before wrapping up at WLLZ-FM in the 1980s.