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Radio Legends Week: Tony Blackburn

Shaun kicks off Radio Legends Week with Tony Blackburn joining him to chat about his career behind the microphone.

It's Radio Legends Week as Shaun spends a week celebrating the legends of the medium. We kick off Monday with Tony Blackburn joining to chat about his career behind the microphone.

Tony Blackburn was the first DJ to launch and broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 1 in 1967 , and presented the Radio 1 breakfast Show until 1973. He began his career as a singer, releasing 14 singles.

Blackburn's broadcasting career was kick-started when he spotted an advert DJs, for what was to be the pirate station Radio Caroline. In July 1964 he began DJing on the three-masted cargo schooner, Mi Amigo, anchored three-and-a-half miles off the Essex coast. He has won over 30 awards including, 'Best Breakfast Show' (Contemporary Music) by Sony Radio Awards in 1993. He recently picked up a special honour at The Radio Academy Awards, marking his 50 years on the airwaves. It is the second time he has received the academy's Gold Award- having originally been honoured on his silver anniversary in 1989.

"It's very kind of you," he said. "I want to thank the medical team that keep me going.".

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Mon 21 Jul 2014 07:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The All Seeing I

    Beat Goes On

    • FFRR.

  • The Avalanches

    Frontier Psychiatrist

    • XL.

  • Blur

    There's No Other Way

    • Food.

  • Bombay Bicycle Club

    Come To

    • Island.

  • David Bowie

    Starman

    • EMI.

  • Buzzcocks

    What Do I Get?

    • EMI.

  • Jimmy Cliff

    The Harder They Come

    • Jimmy Cliff - The Singles.
    • BR Music.

  • De La Soul

    Buddy (Native Tongue Decision) (feat. Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, Monie Love & 蚕鈥怲颈辫)

    • BIG LIFE.

  • The Doors

    Hello I Love You

    • ELEKTRA.

  • Elbow

    Real Life (Angel)

    • The Take Off And Landing Of Everything.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Fun Boy Three

    Our Lips Are Sealed

    • Chrysalis.

  • A Guy Called Gerald

    Voodoo Ray

    • Rham!.

  • The Horrors

    I See You

    • Luminous.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 001.

  • Jagwar Ma

    Man I Need

    • Marathon Artists.

  • Jungle

    Time

    • XL.

  • Eddie Kendricks

    Keep On Truckin' (Part One)

    • Motown.

  • King Creosote

    For One Night Only

    • From Scotland With Love.
    • Domino.
    • 001.

  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • Castle Communications.

  • Jenny Lewis

    Just One Of The Guys

    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • Lykke Li

    Gunshot

    • I Never Learn.
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • La Roux

    Kiss And Not Tell

    • Polydor.

  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • Columbia.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Dance To The Music

    • Dino.

  • St. Vincent

    Regret

    • St Vincent.
    • Caroline International/Lorna Vista.
    • 001.

  • Tears for Fears

    Head Over Heels

    • Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down.
    • Fontana.
    • 5.

  • Jeff Tweedy

    Summer Noon

  • Jack White

    Would You Fight For My Love

    • Lazaretto.
    • XL/ Third Man Recordings.
    • 001.

Broadcast

  • Mon 21 Jul 2014 07:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music