R. William “Bill” Freston, a former executive at Columbia Records who worked with superstars including The Rolling Stones and Billy Joel, died on Thursday (Feb. 20) following a “traumatic fall” on the Caribbean island of Bequia, his family announced Wednesday (Feb. 26). He was 76.
Freston began his career in the early 1970s after graduating from St. Michael’s College at the top of the decade, first with a job at free-form Boston radio station WNTN, where he rose to the role of GM. In 1973, Freston moved to New York, where he was hired at Columbia Records
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