Bill Shapiro

A tribute to the Kansas City tax attorney who spent 40 years hosting a music show devoted to rock and roll.Bill Shapiro recently died at the age of 82. To…

Segment 1: Cyprus Avenue host Bill Shapiro died at the age of 82.On Saturday nights for more than 40 years, Bill Shapiro hosted Cyprus Avenue, a music…

Bill Shapiro, a Kansas City tax attorney by day who spent more than four decades hosting a Saturday-night radio program devoted to rock-and-roll, died on…

Bill Shapiro wanted to be a disc jockey. And as host of KCUR's long-running popular-music program, “Cyprus Avenue,” he managed to do that for 40 years…

Segment 1: Understanding who's who in the upcoming trial of Missouri Governor Eric Greitens.Missouri Governor Eric Greitens will stand trial on Monday for…

The sounds of Cyprus Avenue have filled this station’s airwaves for three and a half decades now, and host Bill Shapiro is still going strong. In the…

This fall marks a milestone for Kansas City radio and the metro’s many fans of rock, gospel, country and reggae. The now-iconic Cyprus Avenue program…

Is your musical taste stuck in a rut? Don’t you wish you had cool friends to take you out to a record store for a music makeover? Well, now you do.Join…

This episode of Cyprus showcases some of host Bill Shapiro's top picks of 2011. With new releases from Hugh Laurie and Paul Simon, along with a…