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Topic History of: Very sad news - Bernie Andrews RIP
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Chris Retro	Bernie seems to be very well thought. He also produced the Radio 1 Top 20/Top 40 Sunday show 1976-1984, which covers the exceptionally well-thought-of Tom Browne-Simon Bates-Tony Blackburn-Tomy Vance eras. He is also famous for recording many of his (and others) productions that would have been otherwise wiped and lost forever by the BBC - for instance, most of the "Beatles Live at the BBC" double cd set was originally junked, but survived via Bernie's own copies - ditto the Jimi Hendrix Experience sessions. He still has a lot lot more in the possession of his estate as the BBC were unwilling to pay a decent price for most of it as "they already owned it" (DOH!) Similar to how a load of BBC music footage - Jimi Hendrix on the "Happening for Lulu", 3 'Colour Me Pop's, Leonard Cohen & The Kinks on the Julie Felix show and a handful of TOTP's etc - survive solely due to being copied and squirelled away by a music-loving BBC employee called Bob Pratt.
JK2006	Interesting - and I hope Bernie is logged on in heaven - there have been more views to this thread - 859 - than to any other over the past four days. Yet no other posts.
JK2006	A very dear old friend (he brought me The Sun Has Got His Hat On) and the man who championed and produced John Peel. I had lunch with him a few years ago and we spoke often on the phone but he had been pretty unwell. The best BBC Producer in the early days of Radio One. And a delightful man.