Youngstown hears Springsteen first, before ordered to stop

YOUNGSTOWN — It’s one of those things that could only happen “Here In Youngstown.”

Anyone listening to rock radio station WNCD 93.3-FM Thursday afternoon became part of an exclusive club — the first to hear music from Bruce Springsteen’s next album. The problem is, they weren’t supposed to.

The album, “Magic,” will be released Oct. 2, and the first single, “Radio Nowhere,” is scheduled to make its radio debut Tuesday.

But WNCD somehow received a copy of the song Thursday — five days early — and played it. And in that instant, WNCD became “radio somewhere.”

“I know not how we got it,” said Bill Kelly, the station’s vice president/market manager, who noted, “If we got it, we play it.”

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