I was sent to find Anthony Blunt on the day he was exposed as a spy. It was my first week in journalism, and I had just joined ITN as a trainee. In those days, if ITN had a big story, it would spray the country with camera crews; it put people everywhere. The one place the ...
Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant was voted the Greatest Voice In Rock by listeners of radio station Planet Rock. Plant beat Queen's Freddie Mercury, Free's Paul Rodgers and Deep Purple's Ian Gillan to the top spot in the UK poll. 17 Jun 2008 Welsh singer Duffy's single Mercy was na...
The man had vices, but he largely kept them out of his songs, choosing instead to glorify the great outdoors in hits like “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Uncool? Perhaps. When Denver was named Entertainer of the Year by the CMA in 1975, presenter Charlie Rich responded by setting ...
Presenters aren't supposed to root, but it was clear Reba McEntire was pulling for Shania Twain when she announced the rising female superstar as the 1999 Entertainer of the Year winner. Both women cried, perhaps because Twain was the first woman to win the award since McEntire did it 13 ...
No. 50: Olivia Newton John's CMA Shocker It was quite a surprise when Olivia Newton John was crowned Female Vocalist of the Year instead of women named Dolly, Loretta and Tanya. She wasn't a reliable hitmaker at that time. Her country career would include seven Top 10 hits. ...
I first came into broadcasting in 1973, at Radio Bristol, and began as a copytaker in the newsroom. I got promoted quickly to news editor's secretary, without shorthand or typing skills. My policy was always to try to get in as secretary, be really bad at it, and then get promoted....
“the female Bob Dylan” deserved. But that’s just as well – Williams’ gritty voice is one of the most distinctive there is, and it’s all hers. “I’m kind of an anomaly. I got discovered late. And here I am, at my age,” she said earlier this year. “Ihaveto do this....
I was a reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post in 1972. My news editor sent a group of us out with a photographer to prove that it was possible to beat the immigration system, as a lot of Pakistani textile- workers were doing at the time....