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This is not questioning allegations against him. Please don't start.


Simply I loathed him as a DJ in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and even now. Am I missing something?


He's just always come over as a prat. Now that could be said about lots of other ex-Radio 1 Jocks. Smashy and Nicey in particular.


But whilst they are amusing parody's and Mike Read's stance on Frankie/relax (and his rewriting of history) Blackburn just seems to go on and on, being found various slots on the network.


I don't and wont listen to him, but was suprised to hear he now has a new slot.

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Never been a fan of his style of djing. I remember when he came up to our office on one of the papers I worked on for an interview back in '77 when he was going through a divorce with the very lovely Tessa Wyatt and everyone giving him the w**ker sign behind his back on his way in and out.

Don't really get this soul boy stuff. He wasn't ever sold as this during the first 3/4 of his career.


It was like the BBC had to have an excuse to keep him on.


Craig Charles - he comes across as having far more soul.


He was always out of touch. durenduren with a hard d (Duran Duran) and theme in black (rather than the Stranglers The Men in Black) being two incidents where he had no awareness of 'pop' music when he was on a pop radio station.

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