John Peel worked at KMEN, a radio station in San Bernardino, California, from January or February 1966 until February 1967. He later believed he had spent eighteen months there; apart from brief references in a 1972 article in Oz magazine, he never got round to writing about this period, but Sheila Ravenscroft (Margrave Of The Marshes, p.224) writes that "John's recollections of his life at KMEN were scattered, to say the least." Like most US pop music stations of the time, it followed a chart-based format and employed a small team of disc-jockeys who hosted daily three-hour shows. Peel, working under the name John Ravencroft, became the station's breakfast DJ, with a daily show between 6 a.m and 9 a.m.; he also presented a weekend show featuring the current British charts. Peel later clai