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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.
He returned to BBC Radio 2 on New Year's Eve 2016, and to BBC Local Radio on both New Year's Day and 6 January 2017, opening with Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". [45] Blackburn now presents Sounds of the 60s on Radio 2, having taken over on 4 March 2017 [46] from Brian Matthew, who hosted it for 27 years.
Brian Matthew (17 September 1928 – 8 April 2017) [1] [2] was an English broadcaster who worked for the BBC for 63 years from 1954 until 2017. He was the host of Saturday Club, among other programmes, and began presenting Sounds of the 60s in March 1990, often employing the same vocabulary and the same measured delivery he had used in previous decades.
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 ...
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
Host will focus attention on BBC Radio 2 shows
30 September – The 50th anniversary of the launch of BBC Radio 2 (and BBC Radio 1) is celebrated. [108] The two stations air a joint 90-minute show presented by Nick Grimshaw and Tony Blackburn, and BBC Radio 2 reconstructs the first ever BBC Radio 1 show on Sounds of the 60s.
The original Sounds of the Seventies was a Radio 1 programme broadcast on weekdays, initially 18:00–19:00, subsequently 22:00–00:00, on during the early 1970s. Among the DJs were Mike Harding, Alan Black, Pete Drummond, Annie Nightingale, John Peel (who alone had two shows per week), and Bob Harris (who started presenting the show on 19 August 1970 by playing Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl"). [1]