Thanks to Steve Nelson for sending this press cutting from 1967, reporting the death of former Swinging Radio England DJ Boom Boom Brannigan,
and to Jack Curtiss for the picture of Boomer working for WPXI, shortly before his death.
Swinging Radio England press releases spelled Boom Boom's surname the same way that we have:
‘Brannigan’. This newspaper report refers to him as ‘Branegan’. It is thought that he changed the
spelling when he returned to the United States to differentiate himself from the original Boom Boom who was still
broadcasting on WPTR.
