Rodney Bingenheimer used his club on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles and his radio show on KROQ-FM to introduce Los Angeles to musicians like KISS and Iggy Pop.
Rodney Bingenheimer (born December 15, 1946) is an American radio disc jockey who is best known as the host of Rodney on the ROQ, a radio program that ran on the Los Angeles rock station KROQ-FM from 1976 to 2017. In the early 1970s, he also managed a Los Angeles nightclub called Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco.
Bingenheimer helped numerous bands become successful in the American market. He developed a reputation for being the first American DJ to identify new artists and play "edgy new bands" such as Blondie, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, Duran Duran, the Cure, Joan Jett, Hole, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Germs and many others.
