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These people were around a hell of while.
I didn't like: Simon Bates, Simon Mayo, Dave Lee Travis, 'Woo Gary' Davies, Annie Nightingale, Noel Edmonds, Ed Stewpot Stewart
Whereas , MIke Reid, Kid Jensen, Paul Gambaccini, Peter Powell, John Peel, Jimmy Saville were OK
Tommy Vance & Steve Wright were pretty good
And Tony Blackburn (genuinely) and Alan 'Kid' Freeman would be top of my pile
I've noticed that there's quite a lot of them that I didn't like :(
I didn't like: Simon Bates, Simon Mayo, Dave Lee Travis, 'Woo Gary' Davies, Annie Nightingale, Noel Edmonds, Ed Stewpot Stewart
Whereas , MIke Reid, Kid Jensen, Paul Gambaccini, Peter Powell, John Peel, Jimmy Saville were OK
Tommy Vance & Steve Wright were pretty good
And Tony Blackburn (genuinely) and Alan 'Kid' Freeman would be top of my pile
I've noticed that there's quite a lot of them that I didn't like :(
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Steve Wright?
Nauseating garbage. |
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Good=Peter Powell and Jimmy Saville
Awful=Kid Jenson and John Peel OK=Janice Long and Simon Bates |
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least favourite Bruno Brookes
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Simon Bates our tune was particularly nauseating
And the Big Hairy Conflake should have been strangled at birth |
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I agree with RR about DLT
Never has a man been more up himself He was a poxy DJ ffs |
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Some of those that I didn't like just annoyed me.
Dave Lee Travis & Ed Stewpot Stewart, I really didn't like |
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Favourite - TV on the Radio, Thomas The Vance....Guardian of the Friday Rock Show!
Can't nominate a least favourite. |
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nicky horne on capital was great,jimmy young oh dear oh dear oh dear
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Fave - Pete Murray
Least Fave- Alvar Lidell |
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Most of the Radio 1 DJs I thought were sh1te at the time but compared to Moyles, Edith Bowman and the rest they seem brilliant. Don't get me started on Lisa I'Anson and Jo Whiley!!
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Oh- 1970s and 1980s- sorry!
I misread it as 1870s and 1880s! |
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favourites - Kenny Everett - Fluff - John Peel
least favourites - DLT - Noel Edmonds - Paul Gambaccini |
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Favourite - Tommy Vance
Least Favourite - Mike Read |
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yeh kenny was good
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I agree with Easter. I did like Mike Dickin and Tommy Vance was a bit of a legend. Simon Bates brought out an emotion in me that I only expected to experience being forced to watch my loved ones get tortured.
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Mike Smith also a cvnt
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Peel was the undisputed guv.
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Peel did become a bit over celebrated by the trendies near the end, not his fault of course, but the man championed the utterly talentless Libertines ffs!
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My fav would be Emperor Rosko
Least favourite, I have always had a hatred for Jimmy Saville, just because he's a tw@t. |
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Simon Mayo was pretty crap on radio 1, but has found his niche on radio 5 where he is very decent.
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Favourites - John Peel, Mike Raven and a bloke whose name I forget.
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mittheimp 14 Jan 14:04
Simon Mayo was pretty crap on radio 1, but has found his niche on radio 5 where he is very decent. now on radio 2. he's still doing the film bit on fridays with mark kermode i think. |
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DLT still doing the same turn on Magic at w/es. Still garbage.
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Peel's heart was in the right place, and he was quite funny, but his shows were unlistenable because he played the most god-awful krap.
I also think Nelson Mandela's a complete and utter cünt. But there you go. |
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i liked kid pension. didnt like dlt and peter powell.
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Johnny Walker
DLT fav & least there, you decide which is which |
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Favs of mine
Peely, Tommy Vance ,Dave Fanning on RTE , Bob Stewart & Tony Prince on Luxembourg. Piccadily Radio based in Manchester had some super djs in the 80's. Mark Radcliffe amongst them. The surprising one is Timmy Mallett. He was on in the evening on Piccadiily Radio when I started work doing shifts. His show was terrific . I seem to recollect that Chris Evans worked on it with him. |
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Ivan Brackenbury for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDyoaktx7zU |
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Carlo - "Peel's shows - unlistenable because he played the most god awful crap". Oh dear......put John Peel in Wiki - scroll down to the list of bands who did one or more sessions for his show. Not much missing imo.
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Zep ,Floyd , T-Rex, The Clash , The Smiths ..... unlistenable rubbish .
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What's amazing Six, is that apart from very great or soon to be great band, he has the entire punk movement start to finish, the whole of New Wave, and then shedloads of Folk, Blues, Soul, World et al and still had time for Ivor Cutler!!.
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Yes , I didn't get Ivor Cutler as a teenager , but I don't think I was supposed to .
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sixtwosix 14 Jan 20:44
Zep ,Floyd , T-Rex, The Clash , The Smiths ..... unlistenable rubbish . ************************************************************ The Smiths are unlistenable, and even Jimmy Young played T-Rex.. C'mon admit it if your big brother could get three mates round with a couple of epiphones, a biscuit tin for the drums, and a cassette tape recorder, and send in the result, Peelie would play it. |
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Sadly that is true Carlo
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The bottom sentence. I quite liked the Smiths
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Carlo - have you read the list???. There is much that is unlistenable then and now BUT......
And re your last paragraph - Correct - he apparently played to himself EVERYTHING that was sent to him, and then played on air, that which he (and the producer) thought had merit. Those were the days. |
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Amongst the 'sessions' there was some god awful sh!t.
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what amazes me was they were part of our landscape for so long,,,a dark chapter in broadcasting
DLT was horrific,,,to even do his resignation live on air is a sign of how far up his colon he was ,,,a feat repeated by Lady Cilla some years later as for Simon Bates,,,now my blood pressure is rising... |