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Way back in the early ‘70s, Here & Now’s Robin Young worked at the powerhouse AM radio station in Boston, WBZ.

But something wondrous was happening over on the brand new FM dial: DJs playing deep album cuts, saying whatever they wanted about the Vietnam War or women’s and gay rights.

When Young asked her boss if he’d heard of the station WBCN, he said that FM would never last.

But WBCN became the soundtrack of the city’s 250,000 college students — the internet of its time.

The station launched the careers of artists like Aerosmith and arguably played a role in ending the war in Vietnam.

It all started in 1966 when Ray Riepen, a young attorney from Kansas City came to town to attend Harvard Business School.

He picked up the beat of the surging counterculture and responded by creating a small club called The Tea Party. Lou Reed and Led Zeppelin played there.

Riepen asked the classical radio station WBC