I wondered what JK'S memories of Radio 1 are, as the station celebrates 40 years of broadcasting. I know that JK did take part, I do recall at least one splendid rockumentary that JK produced for Radio One, including of course A King In New York which was always compulsive listening. Oh dear..I'm overcome with nostalgia now... yesterday is always more preferable..

Indeed Chrissy I was surprised, amazed and shocked not to have been invited to the celebration (my friend Johnny Beerling is going there Sunday morning when Tony Blackburn joins Chris Moyles for the brekkie show - he would have invited me!).

Yes I contributed regularly - What's New (and all the different incarnations), guesting, Music Music Music and many more.

Why on earth did they forget me? How odd.

In my childhood (70s) Radio one was at the cutting edge of pop culture.Alas no more,since the 90s it's surged from crisis to stupidity to who cares.
If the same people who got the station into its current debacle can't work out who belongs there on merit,well I wouldn't be to offended.
We know your contribution,and so do those of the general public who care to remember.

I'm surprised they didn't include you too...unless of course my ears deceived me all those years ago. I often listened to a King In New York tucked away in my grandparents caravan in Blackpool, I remember it distinctly...if I remember rightly it featured just after Adrian Juste on a Saturday afternoon. I wonder what Simon Bates is doing now?

Simon has the highest rated brekkie show on commercial radio on Classic FM and I've just sent him and his wife an invite to my Mum's memorial (they were friends). Simon was a character witness at my trial.

JK2006 wrote:
Simon has the highest rated brekkie show on commercial radio on Classic FM and I've just sent him and his wife an invite to my Mum's memorial (they were friends). Simon was a character witness at my trial.

Thanks for that Jonathan. I didn't know. I'm delighted in fact:) Simon IS Radio 1 for my money.

Somewhere in my archive I still have a tape from around 1991 or 1992 which was an hour long special written and hosted by JK about how to make a hit record, a sort of expanded version of the gold flexidisc in the "Hit Millionaire" album.

I must dig it out sometime because I have fond memories of that special. It was very entertaining - as JK always is - but it did prove a lot of good and interesting points about how pop singles should be constructed. One moment I particularly recall is JK playing the long winded opening to Status Quos' "Whatever You Want" to demonstrate how long intros can bore the listener before the song even begins. He played another, a sort of country thing over which JK yawns and describes how it "goes on and on and on and on...".

A great show and one of many such radio shows I enjoyed that JK broadcast.

I agree about long intros. Too many of the songs I listen to by new acts have intros which seem to drag as though the band are afraid to start. It's generally the worst way to begin a record - Unless you are Status Quo who use their intros to get the audience into a head banging mood. Their long intros are a part of their style and serve a purpose, although obviously not everyone likes that.

Still up and I thought I'd dreamed it all. Radio 1 was wonderful; I loved its quirkiness.. There was at one time no other station like it it in the world. Listen to it now and you will be greatly disappointed

The number one song that never was.

The "no rock and roll fun"-blog celebrates the birthday of Radio 1 with 40 mini-essays:
http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2007/08/radio-o...ore-time-top-40.html

Jeff Lynne - hugely under rated talent.

Lynne was never a 'showman'; a superb producer of great pop songs, wether it be for ELO, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and yep...The Beatles. Not a great performer though. But one thing I've gathered is that he has the greatest respect throughout the industry. Jeff Lynne for me is a man who could take the simplest chords and turn them into something quite extraordinary. Livin' Thing being a prime example; that song was quirky (quirkier than any punk song of the time); very large (it is awesome at full volume..how it should always be heard) and wonderfully feel good as most of Jeff's songs are. Underrated as one one of the greatest ever producers, as good as George Martin in my view (although strict Beatles fans will disagree) Free As A Bird proving it!

Found this one.

xrrf.blogspot.com/2007/09/radio-one-more...ing-in-new-york.html

Don`t know if it had been mentioned before, excuse me if it has.