The final piece KDFC played on 102.1 was "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland, while the first song in the simulcast was "Roll Over Beethoven" by Electric Light Orchestra.
These notes are the same as the first three notes of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", one of the musical themes for Expo 67, though this is apparently just a coincidence.
At the beginning of each level a synthesized excerpt from Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man is heard.
The station began broadcasting on April 20, 1981, with the first song played on the station at 6 a.m. being Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.
Spider-Man | Isle of Man | Common Era | Man Ray | Iron Man | The Six Million Dollar Man | Book of Common Prayer | The Music Man | Common | The Third Man | The Invisible Man | Isle of Man TT | Half Man Half Biscuit | World's Strongest Man | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Court of Common Pleas | Rain Man | MAN SE | Common (rapper) | Burning Man | Pac-Man | Boston Common | Beenie Man | Man Booker Prize | Common Moorhen | Douglas, Isle of Man | Mega Man | The Man Who Came to Dinner | The Amazing Spider-Man | Man of La Mancha |
The story is told to an abridged Boléro, the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth and Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man as well as Maxi’s Song, composed by author Hallfríður, and the Icelandic all-time favourite “Á Sprengisandi” by Sigvaldi Kaldalóns.