ANOTHER ‘just the music’ man, on the early eighties morning show which included gardening tips from Alan Titchmarsh, before manning the smooth Vandross-heavy soul-lite shift for donkey’s years, as well as a Friday night sports show. Famously declares to all and sundry that he was the last person ever to interview John Lennon. Whether you ask him or not.
PEEBLES, Andy
1978 to 1992
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Wednesday, 22.00, BBC Radio 2I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor tonight, which allows us to mention that when it got to number one, Calendar showed a clip from its Whistle Test-inspired video and captioned it “amateur video”. In fact that video was the first we’d heard of them or it, when it was shown on Popworld in fact, and we never thought the record version was quite as good because it was a bit overproduced. Anyway, it’s included here because it started bands being broken via the internet and that rather than the major labels and Top of the Pops.
Football was unfashionable in the mid eighties, soul music wasn’t what most people wanted on a Friday night, could this be the most unlucky radio show ever. It would be a bit like Bob Harris presenting prog rock and cricket features in the mid nineties. However, I would have probably liked that.
He had (& might still have) a show on Smooth Radio called Soul & Soccer on Saturday afternoons.