In November 1964 a 780-ton former WWII minesweeper named MV Galaxy anchored three-and-a-half miles off the Essex coast and became home to Radio London – “Big…
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Radio Luxembourg (“Your Station of the Stars”) began broadcasting in 1933 and was the earliest commercial radio station that could be heard in the UK,…
Born Robbie Robinson in Littleborough (Lancashire) in 1940, Robbie Dale began his working life as a bellboy at the Mayfair Club in London. Other jobs…
Born on 23 July 1937, Robert W. Morgan was a legendary American radio personality who dominated the Southern California morning drive-time airwaves for over three…
Many fans of Rock & Roll will have come across the name Rodney Bingenheimer: KROQ DJ, proprietor of Rodney’s English Disco, friend of the stars and the…
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Russ Knight (born Russell Lee Moore in 1932) – nicknamed “Weird Beard” – was an American radio DJ who first joined KLIF in Dallas in…
There was very little pop music on BBC Radio in the 1950s – after all, it was parents not teenagers who paid the licence fee.…
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Simon was born in Birmingham in 1946 but lived in Suffolk until 1954, when he moved to Shropshire. He had to go to New Zealand,…
Born in Ottawa, Canada, on 28 July 1935, Simon Dee – his real name was Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd – went to school at Shrewsbury in…
Born Harry Christopher Cary on 5 October 1946, “Spangles Muldoon” was a flamboyant, highly influential British offshore pirate radio DJ. Cary began his career as…
Born in Greenwich, South London, Wright was raised in New Cross. He started broadcasting in 1976 at Thames Valley Radio 210 in Reading, Berkshire, alongside…
Born in Edinburgh in 1942, Stuart Henry joined the pirate ship Radio Scotland after training as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music…
Broadcast between 1948 and 1960 and written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, Take It From Here starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.…
A one-time bank clerk, Wogan joined the BBC in the 1960s and was one of Radio 1’s original team of presenters in 1967. His Radio…
Born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, in 1940, he was expelled from school at 15 for truancy and got his first…
Born at Parkstone, Dorset, on 29 January 1943, the son of a GP and a nurse, Tony Blackburn began his broadcasting career in 1964 on…
A native of Dorset, Brandon broke into broadcasting – after a spell as a journalist with the Portsmouth Evening News and some time on the variety stage as…
Born Thomas Whitehead in Oldham on 9 May 1944, Tony Prince had been an apprentice toolmaker and a singer and guitarist with a Manchester group called…