Born in Ottawa, Canada, on 28 July 1935, Simon Dee – his real name was Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd – went to school at Shrewsbury in…
Browsing: Disc Jockeys
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…
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…
“Good guys, playing for you, We’re more laughs than a trip to the zoo Here where the fun never quits, Dial us good guys first…
1 9 3 9 – 1 9 9 5 With the on-air cool of Alan Freed and the smokestack growl of Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Weston Smith – a…