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The ‘Sounds of the 60s’ host took a break from presenting his weekly radio show after he was taken ill in April BBC Radio 2’s Tony Blackburn reveals he had sepsis and pneumonia in health ...
On 30 September 2017, Blackburn recreated his first Radio 1 breakfast show on BBC Radio 2, playing the songs from vinyl, and he later joined Nick Grimshaw, and guests Mike Read, Simon Mayo and Sara Cox for a special show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launches of Radio 1 and Radio 2. [48] In 2020, Blackburn teamed up with Kaiser ...
Host will focus attention on BBC Radio 2 shows
The DJ, 81, worked on pirate stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s. Tony Blackburn hijacks BBC Radio 2 show to mark 60 years of pirate radio Skip to main content
Sounds of the 60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. It was first broadcast on 12 February 1983 and introduced by Keith Fordyce, who had been the first presenter of the TV show Ready Steady Go! in 1963.
The first show had started on both Radio 1 and Radio 2 but continued with Breakfast Special presented by Paul Hollingdale as Radio 1 separated at 7am for Tony Blackburn. The first record played on Radio 2 was the title track to the 1965 film The Sound of Music by Julie Andrews.
Walker's former colleagues Tony Blackburn, Ken Bruce and Jeremy Vine were among the mourners [PA Media] He began his radio career in 1966 on Swinging Radio England, an offshore pirate station ...
In June 1973, Noel Edmonds took over presenting the breakfast slot on BBC Radio 1 and Tony Blackburn moved to present the mid-morning slot (9–12 am). One of the features Blackburn started on this show was the Golden Hour. This was originally an hour of records that had all charted in a specified year, using a different year each weekday.