'I have a certain tendency to do things, real things, that turn out to be funny.' Beloved radio icon Lin Brehmer is remembered. 93XRT
Beloved WXRT 93.1-FM radio host and rock'n'roll poet laureate Lin Brehmer has died after battling cancer, the Chicago radio station reported Sunday. "It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you that we all lost our best friend," Brehmer's colleague and friend Terri Hemmert said in a tweet.
"Lin Brehmer fought cancer as long as he could. He passed early this morning, peacefully, with his wife and son by his side. at 10 a.m., his XRT family will celebrate the incredible life of our best friend in the whole world. We'll hold each other up through this heartbreaking time. Lin would want that. Take nothing for granted," she wrote. Brehmer joined the adult alternative station as music director in 1984 and began a lengthy stint as its morning man in 1991, later shifting to midday. He took time off in summer 2022 to receive treatment for cancer but returned to the air last fall. Brehmer combined a wickedly funny sense of humor, encyclopedic knowledge of music and philosophical wisdom on his shifts and popular"Lin's Bin," feature. The Daily Herald interviewed Brehmer on his 25th anniversary at the station in 2017 and asked,"What makes you, at the age of 62, still funny?" by signing up you agree to our terms of service Brehmer replied:"A lot of what people see as funny is my tendency to be self-deprecating. Everybody can make fun of themselves. That's the safest target. Anything else, you're opening up a can of ugly, swirling, venomous worms. "I have a certain tendency to do things, real things, that turn out to be funny, like showing up to work with a snow boot on my right foot and a sneaker on my left foot, just because I wasn't really concentrating getting my foot gear on.""Chicago has lost its best friend," Chicago congressman Mike Quigley said in a tweet. "I simply cannot imagine a world without Lin Brehmer," radio personality Joan Esposito said in a tweet."We are all the poorer for it. Brilliant writer, lover of people and music, fantastic father and all around awesome human."
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