Paul Baskerville (born 3 March 1961) is an English radio

disc jockey A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include Radio personality, radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music f ...

(DJ) on the German radio station

Norddeutscher Rundfunk Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; ''Northern German Broadcasting'') is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, M ...

(NDR). In 2019, he gained international popularity for possibly playing "

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" (also known as "Like the Wind", "Blind the Wind", "Check It In, Check It Out" or "Take It In, Take It Out" after lines in fan-interpreted lyrics; acronymed as TMMSOTI or TMS) is the nickname given to a son ...

" on his program in the early 1980s.

Life

Baskerville was born and grew up in Manchester. As a teenager, he joined the punk band ''The Limit''. He moved to Germany in 1980. Initially, he worked for

Karstadt Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH was a German department store chain whose headquarters were in Essen. Until 30 September 2010 the company was a subsidiary of Arcandor AG (which was known until 30 June 2007 as KarstadtQuelle AG) and was responsible wi ...

.NDR Hamburg Journal from December 22, 2012: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTRVxY9uXI He started working for NDR in 1981 with features about music from England and especially Manchester. In 1982, he got his first weekly show, ''Musik für junge Leute'' which he moderated every Thursday from 13:20 to 14:30. He also moderated the shows "No Wave", "Kopfhörer", and "Offbeat". Over the years, he got different slots. He did also shows for

Radio Bremen Radio Bremen (RB), Germany's smallest public radio and television broadcaster, is the legally mandated broadcaster for the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (which includes Bremerhaven). With its headquarters sited in Bremen, Radio Brem ...

Deutschlandfunk Deutschlandfunk (DLF, ''Broadcast Germany'') is a public-broadcasting radio station in Germany, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the four national radio channels produced by Deutschlandradio. History Broadcasting in the ...

and

DT64 Sputnik or MDR Sputnik is a youth-oriented Germany, German radio station, and is part of Leipzig-based public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, MDR, based in Halle (Saale), Halle. The station, which primarily broadcasts Pop music, pop and Roc ...

and reportages for

Arte Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plus ...

. He also wrote a music column for the weekly paper ''Freitag'' ("Friday"). Currently, he is broadcasting the show ''Nachtclub'' ("nightclub") which ran from 2003 to 2020 on NDR Info on Saturday from 0:05 to 2:00 and has moved in 2021 to NDR Blue on Thursday at 21:00. One of the most important record stores for his program Musik für junge Leute was the now defunct based in

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. Paul Baskerville is married and has a daughter named Emely. He lives in Hamburg. Baskerville's program ''Musik für junge Leute'' ("music for young people") is thought to have been the show from which a German teenager taped an unidentified new wave song between 1982 and 1984 that has become a viral internet phenomenon dubbed "

". He suspects that it was a demo recording that was played once by an NDR presenter and then thrown away.

References

External links

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1961 births Living people DJs from Manchester English radio DJs English expatriates in Germany German radio personalities {{UK-radio-bio-stub