Alan Black (15 January 1943 – 5 March 2007) was known as one of the presenters of BBC's ''

Sounds of the Seventies ''Sounds of the 70s'' is the name of BBC radio programme, currently broadcast on Sundays by BBC Radio 2, with the ''Sounds of the Seventies'' name also having been used by BBC Television for a number of themed music compilations, now repeated ...

''. After having worked as a disc jockey for a series of commercial radio stations in the mid-1960s, Black joined the BBC in July 1968, with a programme on

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: ''Midday Spin''. He also presented ''In Concert'', on

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, and the ''What's New'' programme and Radio 2 FM's ''

'', with

Anne Nightingale Annie Avril Nightingale (born 1 April 1940) is an English radio and television broadcaster. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 in 1970, and is its longest-serving presenter. Early life and career Nightingale was born in Osterley ...

.Mulligan, Brian
"U.K. Radio Drops Music Programs". ''Billboard'', 19 August 1972, p. 44.
''Google Books''. Retrieved 7 May 2023.

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1943 births 2007 deaths British radio DJs British radio personalities BBC Radio 1 presenters {{UK-radio-bio-stub