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The "Fab 40" (i.e. "Fabulous Forty") was a weekly playlist of popular records used by the British "pirate" radio station "Wonderful" Radio London (also known as "Big L") which broadcast off the Essex coast from 1964 to 1967. [1]

33 relations: Adjective, Alan Freeman, BBC, BBC Essex, BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 1, Beyond Our Ken, Cathy McGowan (presenter), Chart, Colgate-Palmolive, Dave Cash (DJ), Disc jockey, Essex, Family Favourites, Go Now, Heroes and Villains, ITV (TV network), Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967, Melody Maker, NME, Nowhere Man (song), Pick of the Pops, Pirate radio, Playlist, Radio Caroline, Ready Steady Go!, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, The Settlers (band), Tommy Vance, USS Density (AM-218), Wonderful Radio London.

Adjective

In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.

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Alan Freeman

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.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Essex

BBC Essex is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Essex.

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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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Beyond Our Ken

Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) is a radio comedy programme, the predecessor to Round the Horne (1965–1968).

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Cathy McGowan (presenter)

Cathy McGowan (born 1943) is a British broadcaster and journalist, best known as presenter of the rock music television show, Ready Steady Go!.

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Chart

A chart is a graphical representation of data, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart".

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Colgate-Palmolive

The Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American worldwide consumer products company focused on the production, distribution and provision of household, health care and personal care products.

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Dave Cash (DJ)

David Charles Wish (18 July 1942 – 21 October 2016), known as Dave Cash, was a British-Canadian radio presenter who latterly worked for BBC Radio Kent, having had previous spells at Radio London, BBC Radio 1, Capital Radio, Radio West (he was launch programme controller at the Bristol station), Country 1035 and PrimeTime Radio.

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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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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Family Favourites

Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (remembered by its later name Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2 and the British Forces Broadcasting Service until 1980.

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Go Now

"Go Now" is a song composed by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett.

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Heroes and Villains

"Heroes and Villains" is a song written and produced by Brian Wilson with words by Van Dyke Parks, recorded by the American rock band the Beach Boys.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967

The Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 c.41, shortened to Marine Broadcasting Offences Act or "Marine offences Act", became law in the United Kingdom at midnight on Monday 14 August 1967.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Nowhere Man (song)

"Nowhere Man" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.

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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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Pirate radio

Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license.

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Playlist

A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player either sequentially or in a shuffled order.

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Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly.

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Ready Steady Go!

Ready Steady Go! (or RSG!) was a British rock/pop music television programme broadcast every Friday evening from 9 August 1963 until 23 December 1966.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964.

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The Settlers (band)

The Settlers were a folk-oriented group from the English West Midlands, who formed in the mid-1960s.

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Tommy Vance

Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (11 July 1940 – 6 March 2005), known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire.

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USS Density (AM-218)

USS Density (AM-218) was an ''Admirable''-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II.

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Wonderful Radio London

Radio London, also known as Big L and Wonderful Radio London, was a top 40 (in London's case, the "Fab 40") offshore commercial station that operated from 23 December 1964 to 14 August 1967, from a ship anchored in the North Sea, three and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_40

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