Chuck Taylor, the groundbreaking former WTJU general manager who died on August 11 at age 74, was, by most accounts, married to music. He had a collection of vinyl records numbering in the thousands. He kept a spreadsheet of all the concerts he attended over a 40-year period. More than 600 shows, many at beloved local venues, populate the sheet.
So when Taylor arrived at his WTJU retirement party in 2010 with a friend named Betty Jo Taylor, it caused a bit of a stir.
As it turned out, Taylor did not have a secret spouse that no one at the radio station knew about—just a close friend who happened to share his last name…