Born in Melbourne, Australia, former accountant Freeman landed himself a job as a summer relief disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg. He made enough of an…
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The Disc Jockey widely believed to have first coined the phrase “rock ‘n’ roll” began life as a jazz trombonist with a band called Sultans…
1 9 4 0 – 2 0 2 4 Anne Avril Nightingale was born in Osterley, Middlesex, England, on 1 April 1940. She became a fan…
One of the kings of the East Coast airwaves, Brooklyn-born Brucie (born Bruce Meyerowitz on 13 October 1935) began his radio career in the late…
Born David Charles Wish on 18 July 1942, Londoner Dave Cash acquired his distinctive mid-Atlantic drawl after moving to Canada at 16. While in the Great…
Dave Christian (born David Crockford in 1948) began his career in the mid-1960s, working as a ballroom and club warm-up DJ for major pirate radio…
Hull began his radio career accidentally while serving in the military during the Korean War. Stationed in North Africa, he walked past an Armed Forces Radio…
David Allan Jensen was born in 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia. He began broadcasting in Canada at the age of sixteen, presenting, oddly enough, classical…
Born David Pilditch in Manchester on 10 September 1938, David Hamilton started his career with the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Germany after being conscripted…
Born in September 1932, Dick Biondi became an incredibly influential American disc jockey who fundamentally shaped the sound of rock-and-roll radio. Affectionately known as “The…
Canadian-born disc jockey “Daffy” Don Allen (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in March 1939 to Romanian parents) took a course in announcing in Chicago after leaving…
Born in October 1942, Errol Bruce Knapp spent his youth around military bases (his father was a Canadian serving in the British Army). His first…
Born on 20 May 1934, American radio disc jockey Hyman Aaron Lit was based in the Philadelphia area from the 1950s until 2005. In his…
After a stint at BBC Radio Merseyside, Janice Long – elder sister of Swap Shop’s Keith Chegwin and a former Laker Airways hostess – joined Radio…
Jimmy was born in Cinderford and was originally a singer with a number of hit records to his credit in the mid-1950s, including Too Young,…
John Peel (born John Ravenscroft in 1939) cut his teeth as a DJ in the USA, working on stations in Dallas, Oklahoma and San Bernardino,…
Birmingham-born Walker began his DJ career at the age of 20, working in ballrooms in his home town. While working as a ballroom DJ, he…
Holliday (born John Holliday Bobbitt on 15 October 1937) started in radio in small markets like Perry, Georgia, before landing a job at WHK in…
After early radio experience in Melbourne, Australia, Johnny came to Britain in 1963 (his mother was from Sheffield in Yorkshire), joining Radio Luxembourg as a…
Born in Timperley, Cheshire, in 1939, Skues’ broadcasting career began on the British Forces Network in Cologne, Germany, in 1959. He returned to Britain in…