Asked to choose your favourite British radio DJs the chances
are one of them will be on this list: David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, John Peel,
Tommy Vance and Roger Scott. All now sadly no longer with us. But all are the
subject of this latest book, Pop Pickers
and Music Vendors by John Van der Kiste.
John has traced the careers of these eminent DJs (and Eminent DJs was the working title for
the book) because he rightly regards the five "as among the greatest in
their field", observing that not only did they end their careers as radio
presenters "but also that four of them were still broadcasting within
weeks of their passing away." Old DJs never die, they just fade.....
Aside from Peel - who must surely be the most written about
DJ, with Kenny Everett running a close second - the rest of John's cast of
players have not received the same level of attention, at least not in printed
form. There is much here to satisfy the casual reader as there is the ardent
radio enthusiast.
Pop Pickers and Music
Vendors is published by Fonthill Media and is available from them and all
the usual places. One for the Christmas book list I think.
Here are the famous five in action:
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