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Johnnie Walker (DJ)
Peter Waters Dingley (30 March 1945 – 31 December 2024), known professionally as Johnnie Walker, was an English radio disc jockey and broadcaster. He began his career in 1966 on Offshore radio, pirate radio station Swinging Radio England before joining Radio Caroline. He joined BBC Radio 1 in 1969 and BBC Radio 2 in 1998. From 2009 to 2024, he presented ''Sounds of the 70s'' on Radio 2 on Sunday afternoons and ''The Radio 2 Rock Show'' on Friday nights from 2018 to 2024. On 6 October 2024, Walker announced his retirement from broadcasting after 58 years because of ill health, with his final show airing on 27 October. Walker's death, at the age of 79, was announced by the BBC on 31 December 2024. Early life Walker was born Peter Waters Dingley on 30 March 1945, in Olton, Warwickshire, England. His father sold electroplating equipment for car parts at W. Canning & Co. in Birmingham, and his mother Mary Dingley was a Conservative Councillor in Solihull from 1979–1991. Walker w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Modern honours, knight if male or a dame (title), dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with the order, but are not members of it. The order was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, who created the order to recognise 'such persons, male or female, as may have rendered or shall hereafter render important services to Our Empire'. Equal recognition was to be given for services rendered in the UK and overseas. Today, the majority of recipients are UK citizens, though a number of Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. Honorary awards may be made to cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Groningen
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is the second oldest in the country (after Leiden University, Leiden). The University of Groningen has eleven Faculty (division), faculties, nine graduate schools, 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175-degree programmes. The university's alumni and faculty include Johann Bernoulli, Aletta Jacobs, four Nobel Prize winners, nine Spinoza Prize winners, one Stevin Prize winner, various members of the Monarchy of the Netherlands, Dutch royal family, several politicians, the first president of the European Central Bank, and a secretary general of NATO. History The institution was founded as a college in 1614 in an initiative taken by the Regional Assembly of the city of Groningen and the ''Ommelanden'', or surroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHFS (historic)
WHFS was the call sign for three successive Frequency modulation, FM stations in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore markets that broadcast on various frequencies for nearly 50 years. The first station in the area to broadcast in FM stereo, it was a long-time progressive rock (radio format), progressive rock station. History 1960s WHFS began broadcasting on November 12, 1961, on 102.3 FM in Bethesda, Maryland. Its call sign stood for "Washington High Fidelity Station" (and later as "Washington High Fidelity Stereo) advertising that it was the first station in the Washington metropolitan area to broadcast in FM stereo. It was originally located in a space in the basement of the Bethesda Medical Building on Wisconsin Avenue with its antenna on the roof. Its original format was Classical music, classical, with jazz after 10 p.m. The first employee was Marlin R. Taylor, who started three months before HFS went on the air and left in April 1963. (Jesse) Alvin Jeweler was hired as h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, California, Oakland and Emeryville, California, Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany, California, Albany and the Unincorporated area, unincorporated community of Kensington, California, Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County, California, Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321. Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the university. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPFA
KPFA (94.1 FM) is a public, listener-funded talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on the air April 15, 1949, as the first Pacifica Radio station and remains the flagship station of the Pacifica Radio Network. The station's studios are located in Downtown Berkeley, and its transmitter site is located in the Berkeley Hills. History Launched in 1949, three years after the Pacifica Foundation was created by pacifist Lewis Hill, KPFA became the first station in the Pacifica Radio network and the first listener-supported radio broadcaster in the United States. Previously, non-commercial stations were licensed only to serve educational functions as extensions of high schools, colleges, and universities. This departure into listener-oriented programming brought many detractors as KPFA aired controversial programming. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSAN (FM)
KSAN (107.7 MHz, "107.7 The Bone") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to San Mateo, California, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by Cumulus Media and it airs a classic rock radio format. It also serves as the FM flagship station for the San Francisco 49ers Radio Network. KSAN's studios and offices are located on Battery Street in San Francisco's SoMa district. KSAN has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 8,900 watts. Its transmitter is off Radio Road on San Bruno Mountain in Brisbane, California. KSAN broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. History KUFY/KVEZ On April 1, 1963, KUFY signed on the air. It was the FM counterpart of KOFY (now KTCT), owned by Intercontinental Radio, Inc. While the AM station aired a regional Mexican format, KUFY played beautiful music, mostly instrumental cover versions of popular songs along with Hollywood and Broadway showtunes. Because KUFY played easy listening music, the call sign changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay City Rollers
The Bay City Rollers are a Scottish pop rock band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity, as a band in the 1970s. One of many 70s acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles", they were called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and sold 5 million albums. Their classic line-up during their peak popularity, included guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood (musician), Stuart Wood, singer Les McKeown, bassist Alan Longmuir and his younger brother Derek Longmuir on drums. The Bay City Rollers' first album, ''Rollin' (Bay City Rollers album), Rollin''' (1974) debuted atop the UK Albums Charts and spent a combined total of fifty-eight weeks on the UK Albums Chart. Their follow up studio album ''Once Upon a Star'' (1975) continued this success, again, debuting atop the UK Albums Chart. The album yielded the successful singles "Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye), Bye, Bye, Baby", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, and "Keep On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give A Little Love (Bay City Rollers Song)
Give a Little Love may refer to: *Give a Little Love (Bay City Rollers song), "Give a Little Love" (Bay City Rollers song), 1975 *Give a Little Love (The Judds album), ''Give a Little Love'' (The Judds album), European title of the album ''Heartland'', 1987 *Give a Little Love (The Judds song), "Give a Little Love" (The Judds song), 1988 *"Give a Little Love", by Albert Hammond and Albert West, covered by several artists *"Give a Little Love", by Andrea Faustini from ''Kelly (Andrea Faustini album), Kelly'' *"Give a Little Love", by Golden Harvest from ''Golden Harvest (album), Golden Harvest'' *"Give a Little Love", by Griffin House (musician), Griffin House *"Give a Little Love", by Jermaine Jackson from ''Precious Moments (album), Precious Moments'' *"Give a Little Love", by LeVert from ''Rope a Dope Style'' *"Give a Little Love", by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell from ''United (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album), United'' *"Give a Little Love", by Mr. President (band), Mr. Presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Market Research Bureau
The British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) was a market research agency, formed in London in 1933 as a spin-off from American advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. It was notable for creating the Target Group Index, a survey that is still conducted today, and for being the compiler of the first UK official singles and albums charts in 1969. Background In 1899, J. Walter Thompson established a subsidiary, JWT London, and became the first American agency to open an office in Britain, setting up a European Sales Office in the Strand in London. It was a relatively small office with only a handful of staff, and its purpose was to act a sales representative for European advertisers wanting to run campaigns in the US (such as the British Pears soap and Swiss Peter's chocolate). The office closed when the US joined the First World War in 1916, before re-opening in 1919 in Kingsway and then moving to Bush House in 1920. By the early 1920s, JWT London was handling advertising for five A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Because They're Young (song)
"Because They're Young" is an instrumental performed by Duane Eddy. It appeared on his 1960 album, '' $1,000,000 Worth of Twang''. Background "Because They're Young" was written by Aaron Schroeder, Don Costa, and Wally Gold, and produced by Lee Hazlewood and Lester Sill. It ranked #37 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Top ''Hot 100'' songs of 1960. Chart performance Other versions * James Darren released a vocal version as a single in 1960. It went to #29 in the UK and #4 in New Zealand. *Helen Shapiro put out her rendition on 10 March 1962. Popular culture * The song was featured in the 1960 movie, ''Because They're Young'' sung by James Darren and arranged by Ernie Freeman. * In the 1960s, various rock radio channels used ''Because They're Young'' as their theme music. * Since 1984, ''Because They're Young'' is the official theme music Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy (April 26, 1938 – April 30, 2024) was an American guitarist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood which were noted for their characteristically "twangy" guitar sound, including " Rebel-'Rouser", "Peter Gunn", and " Because They're Young". He had sold 12 million records by 1963. His guitar style influenced the Ventures, the Shadows, the Beatles (particularly lead guitarist George Harrison), Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and Marty Stuart.Duane Eddy, The Times Register, 3 May 2024 Eddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008. Early life Eddy was born in Corning, New York, on April 26, 1938. His parents were Lloyd and Alberta (née Granger) Eddy. Eddy's father drove a bread truck and later became the manager of a grocery store. He began playing the guitar at the age of five, after hearing the cowboy singer Gene Autry. In 1950, at the age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Dale
Robbie Robinson (21 April 1940 – 31 August 2021), better known by the name Robbie Dale and nicknamed The Admiral, was a British radio disc jockey who was the chief DJ of Radio Caroline during the 1960s. Pirate radio Dale was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, England, in April 1940. He was chief DJ on the offshore pirate radio ship Radio Caroline. Dale was one of the DJs on Radio Caroline on 14 August 1967 with Johnnie Walker, when the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 came into effect. At its peak, the station had 23 million listeners. After the closedown of Radio Caroline he worked for the Dutch pirate radio ship Radio Veronica from May 1968 to August 1969, and then worked on the Dutch broadcaster TROS, where he did a regular radio show on Hilversum 3 on Thursday afternoons. He was given the nickname "The Admiral" by Dave Lee Travis because he reportedly liked the boat to be "shipshape"; he sometimes wore an admiral's uniform while doing his show. He was involved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
