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Alan Freeman

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Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting Pick of the Pops from 1961 to 2000. [1]

82 relations: Absolute Beginners (film), Alan Freeman Days, Archetype, Arthritis, Asthma, At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal, Atlantic Ocean, BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Records, Bisexuality, Brian Fahey (composer), Brinsworth House, Bruce Forsyth, Capital London, Celibacy, Classic FM (UK), Classical music, Cliché, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Dale Winton, Dave Lee Travis, Decca Records, Disc jockey, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Eamonn Andrews, Go Man Go, Gold (radio), Gold 104.3, Graham Chapman, Grand Order of Water Rats, Harry Enfield, It's Trad, Dad!, John Peel, Juke Box Jury, Just for Fun (film), List of Unilever brands, London, London Weekend Television, Matthew Bannister, Mixing console, Nathan Morley, Nicky Campbell, Opera, Order of the British Empire, Paul Gambaccini, Pick of the Pops, Quincy Jones, ..., Radio Academy Awards, Radio Luxembourg, Radio X (United Kingdom), Restricted Service Licence, Richard Skinner (broadcaster), Robin Gibb, Royal Variety Charity, Satire, Sebastian (1968 film), Simon Bates, Simon Garfield, Smashie and Nicey, Soul Bossa Nova, Tasmania, Terry Wogan, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun (United Kingdom), The Times, The Young Ones (TV series), This Is Your Life, This Is Your Life (UK TV series), Tobacco smoking, Top of the Pops, Trent FM, Virgin Radio, Walker (mobility), Wes Butters, You Bet!, 50 St. Catherine's Drive, 89.3 LAFM. Expand index (32 more) »

Absolute Beginners (film)

Absolute Beginners is a 1986 British rock musical film adapted from Colin MacInnes' book of the same name about life in late 1950s London.

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Alan Freeman Days

"Alan Freeman Days" is a song written by Robin Gibb in 2007 as a tribute to the late Australian DJ Alan Freeman in May 2008.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis.

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Arthritis

Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.

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Asthma

Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal

"At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal" (alternatively titled "At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal") is an instrumental piece written by Brian Fahey.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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BBC Light Programme

The Light Programme was a BBC radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and music from 1945 until 1967, when it was rebranded as BBC Radio 2.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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BBC Records

BBC Records was a division of the BBC founded in 1967 to commercially exploit the corporation's output for radio and television for both educational and domestic use.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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Brian Fahey (composer)

Brian Fahey (25 April 1919 – 4 April 2007) was a British musical director and arranger, best known for composing "At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal", Alan Freeman's signature tune to his BBC Radio 1 programme Pick of the Pops.

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Brinsworth House

Brinsworth House is a residential and nursing retirement home for theatre and entertainment professionals in Staines Road, Twickenham, west London, England.

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Bruce Forsyth

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, and screenwriter whose career spanned more than 75 years.

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Capital London

Capital London is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network.

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Celibacy

Celibacy (from Latin, cælibatus") is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons.

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Classic FM (UK)

Classic FM (stylised as Classic M) is one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Cliché

A cliché or cliche is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Dale Winton

Dale Jonathan Winton (22 May 1955 – 18 April 2018) was an English radio DJ and television presenter.

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Dave Lee Travis

David Patrick Griffin (born 25 May 1945), known professionally as Dave Lee Travis, is an English disc jockey, radio presenter and television presenter.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Dr Terror's House of Horrors is a 1965 British horror film from Amicus Productions, directed by veteran horror director Freddie Francis, written by Milton Subotsky, and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

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Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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Go Man Go

Go Man Go (1953–1983) was an American Quarter Horse stallion and race horse.

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Gold (radio)

Gold is a network of oldies radio stations which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold Network in August 2007.

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Gold 104.3

Gold 104.3 (call sign: 3KKZ) is a radio station broadcasting in Melbourne, Australia.

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Graham Chapman

Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was an English comedian, writer, actor, author, and one of the six members of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python.

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Grand Order of Water Rats

The Grand Order of Water Rats is a British entertainment industry fraternity and charitable organisation, based in London.

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Harry Enfield

Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director.

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It's Trad, Dad!

It's Trad, Dad! (1962), known in the U.S. as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm, is a musical comedy featuring a variety of jazz performers and some rock and roll acts.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Juke Box Jury

Juke Box Jury is a music panel show which originally ran on the BBC Television Service from 1 June 1959 until 27 December 1967.

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Just for Fun (film)

Just for Fun is a 1963 British black and white musical film directed by Gordon Flemyng.

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List of Unilever brands

This is a list of brands owned by Anglo-Dutch multinational company Unilever.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television (LWT) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00 am.

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Matthew Bannister

Richard Matthew Bannister (born 16 March 1957) is a British media executive and broadcaster.

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Mixing console

In sound recording and reproduction, and sound reinforcement systems, a mixing console is an electronic device for combining sounds of many different audio signals.

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Nathan Morley

Nathan Morley (born 14 January 1974) is an investigative journalist, television news anchor, and newspaper columnist based in Finland and Cyprus.

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Nicky Campbell

Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell, OBE (born Nicholas Lackey, 10 April 1961) is a Scottish radio and television presenter and journalist.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Paul Gambaccini

Paul Matthew Gambaccini (born April 2, 1949) is an American-British radio and television presenter and author in the United Kingdom.

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Pick of the Pops

Pick of the Pops is a BBC Radio programme, originally based on the Top 20 UK Singles Chart and first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1955.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Radio Academy Awards

The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry.

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Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg.

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Radio X (United Kingdom)

Radio X is a commercial radio station brand focused on alternative music, primarily indie rock, which is owned by Global.

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Restricted Service Licence

A UK Restricted Service Licence (often called an RSL), is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event.

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Richard Skinner (broadcaster)

Richard Skinner (born 26 December 1951 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is a British broadcaster.

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Robin Gibb

Robin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees.

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Royal Variety Charity

The Royal Variety Charity is a British charity based in Twickenham, Middlesex, England.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Sebastian (1968 film)

Sebastian is a 1968 British film directed by David Greene, produced by Michael Powell, Herbert Brodkin and Gerry Fisher, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Simon Bates

Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946 in Birmingham) is an English disc jockey and radio presenter.

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Simon Garfield

Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960"", Debrett's, retrieved 6 July 2011) is a British journalist and non-fiction author.

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Smashie and Nicey

Mike Smash and Dave Nice were two fictional television characters who first appeared in the early 1990s TV sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme.

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Soul Bossa Nova

"Soul Bossa Nova" is a popular instrumental title, composed by and first performed by American impresario, jazz composer, arranger, and record producer Quincy Jones.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Terry Wogan

Sir Michael Terence Wogan (3 August 1938 – 31 January 2016), better known as Terry Wogan, was an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series.

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This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life was an American reality documentary series broadcast on NBC radio from 1948 to 1952, and on NBC television from 1952 to 1961.

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This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title.

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Tobacco smoking

Tobacco smoking is the practice of smoking tobacco and inhaling tobacco smoke (consisting of particle and gaseous phases).

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Trent FM

Trent FM was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Nottinghamshire.

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Virgin Radio

Virgin Radio is a brand owned by the Virgin Group.

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Walker (mobility)

A walker or walking frame is a tool for disabled or elderly people who need additional support to maintain balance or stability while walking.

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Wes Butters

Wesley Paul "Wes" Butters (born 4 May 1979 in Salford), is a radio broadcaster, formerly of BBC Radio 1, and writer.

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You Bet!

You Bet! is a British game show based around the format of the German show Wetten, dass..? developed by Frank Elstner.

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50 St. Catherine's Drive

50 St.

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89.3 LAFM

89.3 LAFM (callsign: 7LAA) is an Australian radio station in Tasmania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Freeman

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