I used to have that LP, rod Stewart's "smiler". Excellent album..... not like the dog shit now they play.....

Blackburn was despised for being such a gimp

John Peel - one of the first and true “influencers”. He changed my life … and hundreds and thousands of others too no doubt.

The BBC is an intelligence agency. These DJs were appointed, all bloodlined, from the old money. Champagne lifestyle, yet pleading poverty over earning $45 per week 😂 Their income is moot.

2 points worth making. Noel was undoubtedly slick and professional but Tony Blackburn (featured at the end) began his broadcasting career 60 years ago in 1964 on the pirate ships (Radio Caroline and Radio London), was the first DJ heard on Radio 1 in 1967 and is still broadcasting today on Radio 2 amongst other stations. Think of all the changes he has had to adapt to! Secondly John Snagge, perhaps playing up to the stereotype, failed to mention that the BBC and he himself began to mellow during the 1950s. His starchy colleague Wallace Greenslade became a regular on THE GOON SHOW alongside Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellars and Snagge even featured in a handful of programmes often sending himself up. It must have been such a culture shock for listeners at the time. I strongly recommend listening to the episode entitled THE GREENSLADE STORY in which he and Wallace almost form a double act

*Nonce Club.*

I was a news paper delivery boy at the time, I used to carry a cheap radio to listen to this show.

I was not yet into music at this point. So much of the incidental BBC music here is so naff! By the time I started listening, in 1972, it was much more hip. Thank goodness for John Peel and Kenny Everett.

All those radio 1 DJs were & still are a creepy bunch of tossers really arent they😂 They are just so dated and of a bygone era thankfully

Alan "Fluff" Freeman was one of the highest skilled BBC DJs imo. Take a listen to his Friday night Rock Show intro as an example. Not many DJs could get away with a 2 minute intro! His Pick od the Pops Top 20 countdown was also legendary. I remember Tony Blackburn saying when he took over Pick of the Pops, replicating the top 20 countdown and getting it right was the part he dreaded most and took him weeks of practice.

Noel Edmonds is a fantastic DJ. If he returned to the airwaves, I would tune in.

2:48 just shows the insincerity of Noel Edmonds. Just listen to how he explains this bit he is going to do. The card is out of the mail, but then listen to him reading the car on air, and the faked surprise laugh he does as if he is reading it for the very first time. Totally faked, but it shows how nothing was really spontaneous with him. Fake laugh at 3:55

Noel Edmonds - A legend in his own mind.

one of the best dj,s ever on radio one

I feel so privileged to have been around when radio was done this way. Thank you Noel and all DJs of those days. Great documentary, thanks for sharing on here.

That aged well, Noal talking about a young boys winky on the BBC!

If you closely screen bottom left, you can see a certain Jimmy Saville tugging on his c*ck😮👀

Thank Gawd for Kenny and John Peel. That Radio 1 format was already failing, the cracks just weren't showing yet. We were all ignoring the radio and playing Bowie by that time.

Poor Noel 😂😂😂😂

Payola rules.

Talentless losers living in a bubble. Apart from Everett and tony Blackburn obvs

Rosco was obviously a paedo

That dj on stage was at least 40.

There's something really weird about Tony Blackburn.

Celebrity Pop music Disc Jockeys . Parasites feeding off the musical talents of others and lackies of the music record industry . 😁

16:40 That newsreader sounded like the late, and sadly missed *Clive James!*

49:18 Disc Jockeys are *NOT, AND NEVER WILL BE* more important than the music they play.

44:10 John Peel was quite right. Radio presenters are *NOT* stars! They're there to simply play the records, give a bit of banter but get silly with it, give time calls as required and read any notices that require reading on air. I did community radio here in Australia for a bit over ten years and *NEVER* referred to myself as a "Disc Jockey", simply referring to myself as a "radio announcer".

America's "silly" stations are *NOT* better than Britain's "silly" stations. Basically silliness for its own sake should be discouraged. It's okay to tell some jokes on the air, for instance, an intro to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", you could say it's a *Token* gesture(the group name, The Tokens) or of the song title, "Shhhhhhh, don't wake him!" America, to their eternal shame had one of *THE WORST* radio announcers *EVER!* His name was plain old "Bob Smith" but was known on air as *Wolfman Jack!* A *TOTAL IDIOT!*

247 Metres is *meaningless!* Give the frequency in kilohertz. AM medium-wave radio operates between 525 and 1605 Kilohertz, And if in the case of the FM band, the range is 88 to 108 Megahertz, and almost always in *Stereo!*

In all of Emperor Rosko's empty, puffed up nonsense here you can see the birth of what became the egoistic geriatric DJs that Radio One had to have metaphorically put up against a wall and shot 30 years later, putting us all out of our misery.

Partridge all over this

Roscoe is from California But that Terrible Quazi English Accent.

the opposite of sodium chloride really. Noel is not a toxic word: edmonds is not a toxic word, but put them together...

Reminds me of the best years of my life

Thanks for posting this. Its programmes like this that made the BBC the most respected broadcaster on the planet. How things have changed for the worse. I always thought there were more people involved in a R1 broadcast, Noel seemed to do everything himself, and darn slick he was too. Noel was always a bit too goody goody for my likeing, but what a pro, same when he was on TV. I know every record that was played, well, whilst i dont think i know any from the last 20 years. It is not well known the origins of the BBC license. For the last 85 years or so it has had nothing to do with a licence, but just funding for the BBC. When radio started out in the 20s, 30s manufacturing sets had not really started, so people made their own sets. There were industries just devoted to supplying the parts like Mullard valves. These home made sets often turned into transmitters, so the whole thing got chaotic, also massive aerials were being constructed. It was decided to regulate everything by setting up a licensing system, by which people applied and paid for the right to own a receiveing apparatus. The controlling authority got so much money in from the licence payers that they set up a national broadcaster themselves. The BBC. When people started buying off the shelf radios after WW2, the license in it self was obsolete, but was kept going as a cash cow for the BBC.

BBC Man Alive The Disc Jockeys 11th Feb 70. 3.9.24. do yer want me? Ermmmm, no..... GARY DAVIS doesn't have these problems.....

Excellent documentary! The amount of work a 70s radio DJ has to do is unreal. Looks like it was hard work and good fun in equal measures.

25:05 what an absolute breath of fresh air 💝

i used to be a DJ and I consider Edmonds to be one of Britain's best ever presenters, not just radio for him but television, he'll go down as a great. Noel Edmonds, Steve Wright, Gary Davies, Kenny Everett, Tony Blackburn... My favourites.

“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.”

Rosco...what a creepy odious character!! Very 'Saville'esk😢

It's hard to watch some of this, knowing what was going on behind the scenes with a lot of those DJs. Scratch the surface and it was a very dark era, but like so much in the 20th century, it was all brushed under the carpet.

I so much as loved Beacon Radio in the first two years on air, but when the IBA eventually punished the station with the threat of new management in October 1978 it was the end of an era. I recently found the page from the Express & Star over at the local Archives Department a few weeks ago.

Was the best until it went crap it all

Noel is now living in New Zealand as he had enough of living in miserable England.

Tony Blackburn endorsing sexual harrasment is a bit disturbing.

Gary glitter merchants

Very creepy era. You can see how Saville & his cronys got away with it.

Getting some serious brothers Grimsby vibes off rosko 😂