Remembering Ian Whitcomb: He turned us on

Longtime resident Ian Whitcomb was Altadena’s own: a fun-loving, one-of-a-kind and multi-talented musician, entertainer, and writer who arrived in Southern California to stay with the British Invasion of the 1960s. His career morphed over the years from pop heart throb (Ian’s “You Turn Me On” reached the Top 10 in 1965, and he toured with the Beach Boys, Kinks and Rolling Stones) — into one of author, radio host, musicologist, record producer and performer of old-ti