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Radio 1 daytime seemed full of the self-satisfied, but John Peel's eclectic tastes drew me back every night for years, and years.
Nowadays flip between Radio 4 and 6Music, with a healthy dose of Spotify and YouTube - because via the internet you can easily listen to stuff that's 5-20 minutes long, something rarely done on radio, unless it was classical music.
dg writes: Fixed, thanks.
In my teens, I loved the 10pm till midnight show that he did before he moved briefly to breakfast time.
dg writes: September 1969-April 1972.
I was upset when Radio 1 arrived, having been a huge fan of the pirate stations. I tried Luxembourg in protest but the daytime programming was patchy and reception poor before the evening. I switched to Capital when it arrived and later to XFM. Now I'm a 6Music diehard, with 5Live for the weekends...
Cheers Radio 1!
Sometimes he would start the Breakfast Show (co-hosted with Dave Cash) early -- say at 0500. He would come in, tell the overnight guy (Ian Davidson?) to buzz off and just get going.
He would give away the answers to all the upcoming quizzes on that morning's show to us early birds!
Another BBC "look how great we are at spending taxpayers money on our anniversaries".
Interesting that Radio 1 is for the kids but not a single DJ under 30.
The average age of every one of those R1 daytime lineups was around 35.
Chris Evans, Bob Harris, Tracy McLeod, David Hepworth, Tom Robinson, TV on the Radio, and the stellar Charlie Gillett and a couple of others whose names now escape me.
And to those who say no beeb for 20 years now, you really should try 6 Radio. Stuff like Jarvis Cocker talking to Eno, for instance, are rare treats.
And, wherever you can find them, Bob Dylan and Steve van Zandt.
Keeping my toes tapping at 72.........
By the way, to show how quickly things can move sometimes in radio, Edith Bowman left Virgin Radio yesterday...
When I moved to London it was much more Capital Radio than Radio One. I had no real access to a telly then so missed all the Top of the Pops which are now being repeated.
These days I have Heart London (yes I know, don't kill me) as backdrop to go to sleep to / wake up to. Those poor souls who follow me on Twitter will know I get overly excited about Forgotten 80s on a Sunday evening plus a variety of shows on Exeter's Phonic FM (a great station if you like variety) plus some internet stations / Mixclould stuff. Even if they are more "amateurish" than the polished commercial stations the enthusiasm for the music, sheer variety, social media interraction and easier ability to get requests played makes it far more fulfilling. It's given me a renewed interest in music after having pretty much switched off after the early 90s.
I enjoyed a few bits and bobs of Vintage R1 this morning and will tune into or Radio Player some more shows but from older DJs, not the modern stuff.
Chris Morris on the GLR Breakfast Show was the highlight of an already-outstanding station.
It wakes me up, it goes on as soon as I come downstairs and usually only goes off between the hours of 8-10.30pm if there's something to watch on the TV.
Then it goes back on until bed!!
Once I discovered Capital radio as a 10 r 11 y/o in the mid-70s that was it for me. No one could compare to Kenny Everett, and still can't!
Radio 1 was reserved for the summer holidays spent at my grandparents in Cornwall.
Now it's Absolute Classic Rock and Absolute Radio.
Her Majesty's Pleasure ;-)
dg writes: Yes, I did consider that 'joke', but checked, and he was actually released in May.
Those of us of 'a certain age' have such a 'shared history' of musical backdrop to our early lives.
Today's teenagers and 20 somethings won't be able to look back with this kind of shared nostalgia in 30 or 40 years, simply because there is no 'shared experience' now.
And I think that is a large part of the current problems in the world...
And jimmy s......?
Then Tommy Vance on the Friday Rock Show, I used to recorded it on a reel to reel as i was down the pub.
Alan Freeman on Saturday afternoon with his rock show, then In Concert.
And well before GLR was a show called Fresh Garbage on BBC Radio London presented by Mike Sparrow.
And in the 80's sometimes on a Sunday i could pick up a pirate rock station called Alice.
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