Tony Blackburn

[malumbu]

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.

[Seabag]

He plays some great music

[Jah Lush]

[Salsaboy]

How very dare you question the magnificence that is Tony Blackburn. Yes he make be the king of the cheesy jokes but he plays some fantastic music. #Blackburnforpresident.

[JohnL]

I always felt he was before my generation

and I was born in the 60s :)

[Jah Lush]

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.

[red devil]

Despite his cheesiness, he got Soul...

[Chick]

He is an obnoxious sexist pratt.

[Parkdrive]

His style might not be to everyone's taste but he's a very knowledgeable soul boy

[malumbu]

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.

[????]

I don't like him as a person or his DJing style but he was the first mainstream Radio 1 DJ to regularly play Soul from the 60s and he carried on with that support (although relatively mainstream soul) later on.