YANK SMOOTH TALKING Peel/Walters protege and memory machine who was Ver One’s trivia expert throughout his tenure on the station; if you wanted to know how many number two hits The Animals had in Malaysia, Paul was your man, with unsurprising end result of co-scribbling the Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles with Tim Rice. Always had too many syllables in surname to allow the stereotypical Radio 1 jingle to scan (“De-da-do doooooooo/Paul Gam-ba-cci-ni!”). Forever ready with a heavyweight yet diplomatic opinion on whatever newsworthy rock story was troubling the headline writers, a role that he continues to fulfil to this day.
Applemask
July 7, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Also a bit gay, which did for his Radio 3 tenure.
Glenn A
January 29, 2017 at 1:47 pm
” Also a bit gay”, who cares, so was Kenny Everett and both men are legends. I’ve been a fan since the seventies.
Joanne Gray
March 28, 2017 at 5:35 pm
I thought he was Canadian?