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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.
The original version was proposed to Alan by the BBC producer Derek Chinnery. By April 1966 it was replaced as the main theme by "Quite Beside the Point" by the Harry Roberts Sound and written by Cliff Adams. But bits of the original "Swinging Cymbal" theme were used occasionally by Alan as jingles in the show.
Alan Freeman at the BBC (1973) Pick of the Pops returned to the BBC as an independent production by Unique Broadcasting on BBC Radio 2 on 5 April 1997, with Freeman now counting down two archive charts each Saturday afternoon, featuring the top 10s and interspersing trivia about the records, again researched by producer Swern. Freeman featured ...
"Alan Freeman Days" is a song written by Robin Gibb in 2007 as a tribute to the late Australian-British DJ Alan Freeman and released in May 2008. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2014, it was included on Gibb's first posthumous album 50 St. Catherine's Drive .
The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile. Enfield's parody of Radio 1's increasing irrelevance to the youth audience it supposedly catered for was a factor in Matthew Bannister 's decision to terminate the employment of many older ...
Welcome to the St. James' Club is the fourth album by the American jazz group the Rippingtons, released in 1990. [2] It reached No. 1 on Billboard's Jazz chart. [3] The group supported the album with a North American tour. [4]
Alan Albert Freeman, known professionally as Alan A. Freeman (27 September 1920 – 15 March 1985) [1] was an English record producer, remembered for being Petula Clark's producer from 1949 until 1963, when his role was taken over by Tony Hatch. Freeman founded the independent Polygon label and worked for its successor labels, Pye Nixa and Pye.
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