by Jon Kutner | Mar 24, 2024 | YouTube clip of the week
Terry Hall, formally of the Specials, Fun Boy Three and the Colourfield, would have been 65 last week. After a tough school life, Terry formed the Coventry Automatics in 1977 who later became the Specials and it was John Peel who gave them their break when he played...
by Jon Kutner | Mar 17, 2024 | Did you know?
The original version of Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers did not chart on the UK Singles Chart until 2009, 38 years after its release. Freddie Mercury’s dying wish for Bohemian Rhapsody to be reissued in order to raise money for AIDS charities. When Billy...
by Jon Kutner | Mar 3, 2024 | YouTube clip of the week
Back in 1980 when Steve Wright joined Radio 1 from Radio 210 in Reading, I had the job of showing Steve where the studios were. He’d never been to that area and it was great to chat with the ‘new boy’ and what a lovely man he was. We got on well and...
