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…
Browsing: Disc Jockeys
One of the great innovators. Kenny Everett (real name Maurice James Cole) helped to establish the double-DJ show with Dave Cash on pirate station Radio…
Born Martin Wesley Goble, Mark began his radio career at just 17 years old on the offshore pirate station Radio Essex in October 1965, presenting…
Born in Liverpool on 30 September 1942, Mike Ahern was educated at St Bede’s Secondary Modern School until he was 15. His first job was…
Born Alan Zeffertt in 1931 and educated in Portsmouth, Mike Allen devoted much of his time to songwriting. In this field, he was very successful…
Mike was born Austin Churton Fairman in London on 15 November 1924. He was the son of the actress Hilda Moore. Before becoming a DJ,…
A former guitarist and singer in Manchester clubs, and known for his lustrous hair and cheesy voice, Mike Read cut his teeth in hospital radio…
During the 1960’s, Murray Kaufman – who called his show “Murray the K and his Swinging Soiree” was the undisputed king of rock’n’ roll radio…
Born in London in April 1947, Nick Bailey was educated at the Lycée François until he was 11. It was then that his father, actor…
Essex-born Edmonds – an ex-public schoolboy and the son of a headmaster and a student teacher – turned down the chance of going to university…
Paul Burnett was born into a show-business family in 1943 and attended 12 schools, living mainly in caravans. He began broadcasting while serving with the…
Born in Montreal (Canada) in 1942, Pete Brady first tried his hand at DJing at Radio Jamaica before moving to Britain and joining offshore pirate station…
Peter Drummond-Hay was born in Wales in 1943 and set out to be an actor, but was sidetracked into radio while touring America, capitalising on…
Born in San Francisco, Pete Myers (aka “The Mad Daddy”) was the wildest Disc Jockey from America’s golden age of Rock & Roll radio -…
Peter James Barnard-Powell was born on 24 March 1951 in Stourbridge. His first broadcasting job was with BBC Radio Birmingham in 1970, and he was…
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…
Russ Knight (born Russell Lee Moore in 1932) – nicknamed “Weird Beard” – was an American radio DJ who first joined KLIF in Dallas in…
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,…