Yvonne Fair

Yvonne Fair passed away 30 years ago last week. Yvonne was born Flora Yvonne Coleman in Richmond, Virginia in 1942 and had to leave school early because she fell in love and married Leroy Fair from whom she took her stage name. He later advised her to join an all-girl...

Steve Wright

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...

Jake Bugg

Jake Bugg is 30 this week. Born in Nottingham, Jake got his break when he was invited to perform at the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2011. One of this early songs, Country Song was chosen by the brewery Greene King IPA for a national TV commercial. She had...

John Travolta

John Travolta is 70 this week. Not a lot that people don’t know about John except that he once danced with Sean Connery at a party held by Frank Sinatra, but here he is joining the gorgeous Olivia on stage at one of her concerts. This is...

Judy Cheeks

Judy Cheeks is an American R&B singer who had five UK hits in the mid-1990s and she’s 70 this week. She got her break in 1983 when she was a backing singer for Ike & Tina Turner whom she supported on their tour and, in turn, they produced her debut...