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The Friday Rock Show was a radio show in the United Kingdom that was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 from 10pm to midnight on Friday nights, from 17 November 1978 [1] until 2 April 1993. For most of its existence, it was hosted by Tommy Vance. Vance also hosted a television version for satellite channel VH1 in the 1990s. [2]
Alan Leslie Freeman MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006), nicknamed "Fluff", [Note 1] was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting Pick of the Pops from 1961 to 2000.
This full BBC session version of We Will Rock You was broadcast on Alan Freeman's Final Saturday Rock Show on Radio 1 on 26 August 1978, has also been played on Radio 1's The Friday Rock Show and more recently on Johnie Walker's Sounds Of The Seventies and Vernon Kay's weekday morning show, both on BBC Radio 2.
Alan Freeman took over in September 1961, taking the show to a regular Sunday slot in January 1962. The programme ended in September 1972, while the Top 20 continued as part of Solid Gold Sixty. Freeman, who became the show's longest-serving presenter, had been a radio announcer in Melbourne, Australia.
7 January – Alan Freeman revives The Rock Show, a show he previously presented on BBC Radio 1. July – Mike Smith takes over as presenter of the breakfast show. August – Richard Allinson joins the station to present Capital's weekly Top 30 chart show. September – Kenny Everett leaves the station for a while to join BBC Radio 2. 1981. No ...
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Upon its inception in 1964, Top of the Pops was presented by a team of disc jockeys in rotation: Alan Freeman, David Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.Savile presented the very first episode from Dickenson Road Studios in Manchester on 1 January 1964 and would continue as the longest-serving presenter until hosting his final show on 30 August 1984.
He began his radio broadcasting career in Denmark in 1965. He married a Dane and moved to Chiswick in west London and in 1972 was unexpectedly chosen by BBC producer Johnny Beerling to succeed Alan Freeman as presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Sunday afternoon chart show. He presented this show from 1 October 1972 to 26 March 1978.