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Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love' was voted the greatest guitar riff of all time by listeners of BBC Radio 2 in the UK. The rock classic came out top from a list of 100 riffs drawn up by a panel of Radio 2 and 6 Music DJs, critics and record producers. 'Sweet Child O' Mine' ...
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....
(19 July), BBC Singers offer three of Bruckner’s most radiant motets, Os justi, Locus iste and Christus factus est which will be followed by Symphony No. 1, under Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic (1 September). Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
Onesies? In 2016, when John Lewis made “Buster the Boxer”, about a dog watching on while squirrels, foxes and badgers bounced on his owner’s new trampoline, every animal character became its own plushie. An ebook version was narrated by the radio DJ and presenter Lauren Laverne. ...
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 ...