Favourite BBC Radio 1 personality (1967 Edition)

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companion piece to the other poll. it's a deadly serious business.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
John Peel	11
Chris Denning	4
Tommy Vance (not pictured)	3
Emperor Rosko (not pictured)	1
Alan Freeman (not pictured)	1
Ed Stewart	0
Pete Drummond	0
Mike Raven	0
Mike Ahern	0
Tony Blackburn	0
Simon Dee (not pictured)	0
Tony Brandon (not pictured)	0
Stuart Henry (not pictured)	0
Jack Jackson (not pictured)	0
John Moran (not pictured)	0
Pete Murray	0
Pete Myers	0
Jimmy Young	0
Kenny Everett	0
Duncan Johnson	0
David Ryder	0
Dave Cash	0
Pete Brady	0
David Symonds	0
Bob Holness	0
Terry Wogan	0
Barry Alldis	0
Mike Lennox	0
Keith Skues	0
Johnny Moran	0
Don Moss (not pictured)	0

― soref, Monday, 17 November 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link

I've probably missed some, for which I'm sorry

― soref, Monday, 17 November 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link

It's between Kenny Everett (for showing how radio DJ lols should be done) and John Peel (for showing how being a radio DJ means or at least should mean actually giving two shits about music).

― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Monday, 17 November 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link

http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/images/190312/new_djs_outside_broadcasting_hse.jpg

Rosko was there for that photoshoot (he's on the far right here), so I don't know why he didn't make it into the main group shot. Been thinking about these guys recently after reading Tony Blackburn's autiobiography, I know next to nothing about roughly 50% of them

― soref, Monday, 17 November 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link

I met Keith Skues once, at a veh posh drinks do in North Notts. He was at Hallam FM by then.

― mike t-diva, Monday, 17 November 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, I met him too, he'd just started as Programme Director there. This would be late 1975, Yorkshire TV studios.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link

I must have met him in, ooh, 1976 probably.

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

Oh, and Annie Nightingale, at the same place/time.

― Mark G, Friday, 21 November 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link

I think Emperor Rosko was OK, he used to play mostly soul + reggae, at least I have a compilation album with his name on it and it's all soul.

― Euripides' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 21 November 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, much missed. He's still alive, just exists in obscure places.

― Mark G, Friday, 21 November 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link

Peel vs Kenny for me. The latter I loved as a kid, mostly on TV tbh. The former I loved as a teen/adult, for his radio stuff. So...

― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Friday, 21 November 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

I forgot to vote in this, would have gone with Kenny Everett.
Impressive showing for Chris Denning

― soref, Saturday, 22 November 2014 07:46 (nine years ago) link

Thought Ken might have got at least one.

― Mark G, Saturday, 22 November 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link

Oh shit. Now I wish I'd done that thing where you can vote a second time between the notification that the poll's about to end, and it ending (can you still do that?)

― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Saturday, 22 November 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link

there is an interesting interview with Mike Raven here: Pirates on the Medium Waves 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEQb1Cf5PC0

― soref, Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link

that guy has a pretty awesome 1980 documentary about 10 years of STOIC (Student Television Of Imperial College) on his youtube channel as well

― soref, Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link

Impressive showing for Chris Denning

― soref,

who?

― strychnine, Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716571/Former-Radio-1-DJ-Chris-Denning-admits-29-sex-offences-against-boys-young-nine-1967-1984.html

― soref, Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link

more popular than Kenny Everett on ilm though apparently *shakes head*

― soref, Saturday, 22 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link

Taught Jimmy Savile all he know

― Mark G, Saturday, 22 November 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZzl2DWh3Pw

― soref, Saturday, 22 November 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link

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