When did Pierre Robert start working at WMMR? Career highlights explored as radio disc jockey dies at 70

Radio personality Pierre Robert died at the age of 70. The news was announced by Beasley Media Group. The cause of his death has not been revealed as of now. Pierre Robert began his career at the commercial radio station WMMR in 1981.

William Pierre Robert, born in California, started out at San Francisco's radio station. However, before joining WMMR, Robert had initially been rejected by the station.

The radio jockey had been working with the company for more than forty years. Robert's slot on the radio station was from 10:30 am to 3 pm on the weekends, as per WMMR.

Pierre Robert's career explored

The Philadelphia Inquirer noted that on his first WMMR show, Pierre Robert was nervous and made the record skip while trying to play a song.

In an interview with Philadelphia Magazine, Robert shared that he hadn't played Guns N' Roses since 2002, after the band missed their Philadelphia show, causing a crowd uproar. Talking about another band, he never played the song, he told the outlet:

"Not that I ever played a lot of Kid Rock, but if he had a new song out now, I wouldn’t play it, because of the insulting anti-gay remarks he made fairly recently. And Skid Row, Sebastian Bach. In the ’90s, he wore a shirt onstage that said “AIDS Kills Fags Dead."

He continued:

"While I actually like him and have done brief interviews with him — he’s very funny and charismatic — his politics have become even more radically conservative and border regularly on condoning violence in support of his beliefs."

In a 2021 interview with the outlet, Pierre Robert mentioned that he had signed a three-year contract with the company, with an option to extend it for two more years. He was also honored with a place on the Philadelphia Music Walk of Fame six years ago.

Robert was also asked about the songs he used to play early in his career on the radio. Answering the question, he said in a statement to Philadelphia Magazine:

"A lot of brand-new rock that’s considered classic today. We had just introduced Abacab by Genesis and Escape by Journey, which, of course, has “Don’t Stop Believin’” on it. And we had just premiered the Rolling Stones album Tattoo You. We somehow got the record before anybody in the entire world had it. So people in Philadelphia heard “Start Me Up” before anybody else."

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