So pleased I saw this. I was one of the dancers at the Top Rank Croydon. It's a bit blurred, but I'm the last one on the right.
@irishboer7124 Жыл бұрын
You were a bit of alright love..., ❣️
@_Ben481011 ай бұрын
Some great moves there Sandra..! 👌
@neworiginal99029 ай бұрын
What a raver 💃
@buffplums8 ай бұрын
Beautiful ladies x❤
@WesleyWattley-xy4fg7 ай бұрын
❤ 🇬🇧 🎸 😅!!! 👌 wow
@phillipecook32277 ай бұрын
This is wonderful to watch. In December 1970 I was 12 years old and had only started secondary school 4 months earlier. My whole life was in front of me. This evokes many memories not only of the personalities featured but of an entire time. Even the Man Alive theme music is powerfully nostalgic.
@loonylinda10 ай бұрын
Kenny Everett was a genius. enjoyd this programme thanks
@phillipecook32277 ай бұрын
Yes. I think his best work was on radio.
@JJONNYREPP4 ай бұрын
BBC Man Alive The Disc Jockeys 11th Feb 70. 3.9.24. Kenny Everette having his own age group, demographic, wandering about him. as opposed to roscoe... Do I see a problem with teens lusting after roscoe? Hardly a get out clause for him to say young lads lusting after hot gossip dancers or Cleo Rocos or any televisual sex bomb are no different... though probably far more frustrated... Dunno, ask the folk who enjoyed roscoe as opposed to folk who had no interest in him.....
@colincarroll79544 ай бұрын
He got the sack but the BBC later had to reinstate him.
@TheKievKen3 ай бұрын
In what way was he a genius?
@JJONNYREPP3 ай бұрын
@@TheKievKen Comments on ‘BBC Man Alive The Disc Jockeys 11th Feb 70’. 2.10.24. probably a euphemism......
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
5:40 - The physical work of producing a radio show in 1970 is seen here, a far cry from what we have now in 2020. Greg James on Radio 1 Breakfast Show has all of his playlist loaded onto the computer, and at a touch of a button he plays each song. No need to load records, ensure turntable ready etc.
@markg68602 жыл бұрын
The DJs had to have technical talent, too, back then. Continuity was much more of an effort.
@DavidEsp12 жыл бұрын
Respect to all the back-room folks who prepare everything (e.g. in the digital record library) so it can all run smoothly like that on the day
@petewadsworth8492 Жыл бұрын
I can safely see we've had the best times feel sorry for The young ones and their future.
@garrywood53458 ай бұрын
Saw Tony Blackburn last year in Warrington for his road show, nice to see him in person after listening to him for 56 years.
@Graphicxtras17 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this up. Would love to see the BBC repeat all of the Man Alive episodes on BBC4
@StarboundUK6 ай бұрын
Someone has been kind enough to create a KZbin playlist for a whole bunch of Man Alive documentaries kzbin.info/aero/PLi_KyOSw9FCnoWpx_O3tiQzQSq88_xP2x&si=RfrRVuYOjpdjyfUH
@markg68608 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this video! I remember seeing it, live, back in 1970 and I was always looking for it on KZbin and elsewhere. It was this very program that made me want to be in radio, which I did for a while here in the States from 2007-2014. (Yes, It took me that long!) Radio technology sure has changed. The equipment back then looks rather dated now, but the DJs had real technical skill, as well as voice talent.
@angelacooper26612 жыл бұрын
This was four months before I was born. Obviously I have only just found out about it, more than half a century later!
@knockshinnoch19507 ай бұрын
Wow, a very rare, fantastic time capsule of late 60s pop culture and in colour! Tony Blackburn's breakfast show is my first memory of Radio 1.
@pigknickers29757 ай бұрын
Woof woof from Arnold!
@RayZappa7 ай бұрын
@@pigknickers2975 ..and now it's time for the Tiny Tots Spot, say hello Arnold
@keithnaylor19815 жыл бұрын
Quite interesting. Radio 1 was my world in 1970. Most disc jockeys were basically similar apart from Kenny Everett who was unique. Listening to Kenny was a bit like watching Monty Python - you were totally blown away by every bizarre inventive piece of comical genius. Kenny loved the Beatles and to see him in this doc being bowled over when listening to 'Because' from Abbey Road is totally understandable. KAN 10.19 UK
@markg68602 жыл бұрын
The technical skill-set was similar, but the presentation styles were quite different. Jimmy Young appealed to a different crowd (the housewife) versus Tony Blackburn (kids getting ready for school or work) versus John Peel (new and "specialized" music).
@jaijai52509 ай бұрын
@@markg6860I wonder if they were all affluent, public school boys. Definitely not representative of the people who they entertained.
@markg68609 ай бұрын
@@jaijai5250 They weren't. I think only Blackburn and Peel went to "good" schools.
@Candolad9 ай бұрын
@@jaijai5250I believe most Radio 1 presenters had to have a degree at one point. It was also a BBC requirement for most roles. I remember Radio 1 taking on Pat Sharp in 1982, but he didn't last too long as, despite being privately educated, he didn't have a degree and trotted off to ILR.
@GARY.943 жыл бұрын
Kenny Everett is the true genius here!. RIP. Regards.
@drmontague64753 жыл бұрын
He was a right wing bastard.
@Treviscoe2 жыл бұрын
He totally was, yes; I have very fond memories of his TV show in 1978. I sometimes wonder what he could have done if he'd had access to today's technology (computer graphics etc.).
@duncanpriestley9647 ай бұрын
@@Treviscoe I think the analogue era actually suited Kenny's genius. Pretty much anyone can produce 'creative' media now with minimal effort using AI. Back then, Kenny stood out as unique because noone else had the skillset to show their creative genius like that.
@GB-vn1tf7 ай бұрын
@@duncanpriestley964 undoubtedly Kenny was on a different planet in more ways than one, but it was all done in the best possible taste! 😉
@whufciironworkes7 ай бұрын
I can remember watching kennys tv show with my late mother both of pissing ourselves
@johngammon9637 ай бұрын
As a kid I absolutely adored Kenny Everett, what a genius indeed.
@markg68608 жыл бұрын
Ah, nostalgia! Back then, the Greenwich Time Signal "pips" were all the same length.
@JohnSmith-wl8cv6 жыл бұрын
Because the last pip nowdays is longer because of the earth time so to catch up the last plp was a little bit longer something like that probably google it you will get the answer
@sharonedwards601010 ай бұрын
I remember their jingles were just as iconic as the djs themselves.
@angelacooper26612 жыл бұрын
When this came out, my mother was expecting me (I was born four months later). So the programme is only just older than me!
@drssexy21427 ай бұрын
it seems no one cares, angela. What has the world come to eh?
@edmundpower1250 Жыл бұрын
That Riscoe guy looked very dodgy with the young girls. Savile not the only one at it
@jeffsimon95947 ай бұрын
Meanwhile most of the moguls & impresarios were after the young boys..
@LoneRanger1007 ай бұрын
Yes John peel for instance
@phillipecook32277 ай бұрын
More than 50 years later Roscoe has never been accused of anything. What's your point?
@ivorsmith39997 ай бұрын
@@phillipecook3227 We didn't know the truth about Savile until he was dead.
@phillipecook32277 ай бұрын
@@ivorsmith3999 So you think Roscoe was a sex offender based on a hunch?? You're not dead. Are you a sex offender also ? Do me a favour.
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
14:50 - Watching this little bit, you can sense the different attitude at Radio 1 in 1970, Emperor Rosko certainly enjoying himself here, you do wonder how many of those girls he invited back to his place later. This scene sums up the attitude and acceptance in 1970s Radio 1.
@michaelkenny85408 ай бұрын
John Peel never used to be shy of explaining how 'young' he liked his women and Blackburn was involved with the case of the young girl who committed suicide and her diary revealed she was a regular audience member at TOTP and she felt she was being exploited by the DJs.
@knockshinnoch19507 ай бұрын
And Tony Blackburn encouraging sexual assault in the streets!
@danw13746 ай бұрын
Claire McAlpine. So sad she was dismissed as being just a fame hungry starry eyed teenage girl. We know now she might have actually been telling the truth😢
@alyciamarrison29164 жыл бұрын
Wow watching this really shows that Kenny Everret was a genius to make those shows live! Sadly missed! Once saw this little man in Heaven (under Charing X station) & couldnt believe it was him cos he was so small, but brilliant man!
@michaelkenny85408 ай бұрын
Who would have thought he would turn into a devout Thacherite supporter and right-wing nut-case.
@FiveLiver7 ай бұрын
To be fair you are 6ft 2
@willdatsun7 ай бұрын
priceless footage of Kenny Everett and John Peel
@redstrat12347 ай бұрын
Herbie Flowers playing with Blue Mink. Played with Elton, Bowie, Bolan, Al Kooper, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed, Jeff Wayne, David Essex, Cliff, Ringo, George Harrison, McCartney and many more. Amazing player.
@bcoffey8 жыл бұрын
What a piece of fascinating archive. Mind you, one watches now a bit with narrowed eyes. What exactly was the story with all the girls in Rosko's studio at the beginning of the programme?
@KatiePuckrikSmells7 жыл бұрын
They're the fans who were waiting for him outside as he arrives for his show. You can see it play out at 40:00. An early example of Chris Evans-style zoo radio - a call and response crowd in the studio.
@buffplums4 жыл бұрын
brendan coffey it was just that girls who loved the DJs why is there such suspicion... young girls loved the DJs it was as simple as that .... I’m sick of people who weren’t alive in this era judging it.... we were there and there wasn’t a problem it was OUR a station it was OUR time and people today have NO fxxxxxxg clue what it was like back there....
@bcoffey4 жыл бұрын
@@buffplums Ah but I was. Born 1958
@buffplums4 жыл бұрын
brendan coffey lol yes it was your station too chap lol 😂
@misterr2793 жыл бұрын
@Chris Cain the reason we watch with narrowed eyes is due to the fact we know our concerns have been proven true. Peodophiles were having a fucking ball in this period FACT kids were invited to “hang out” with adults whilst dimwits said “ ayyy there’s nuffing with it, just kids being kids” there’s a vile undercurrent to it all
@DavidSmith-648 Жыл бұрын
4:55 John Dunn in there, who was on Breakfast Special in those days (the show that preceded Tony's and which carried on after 7am on 1500 and VHF only).
@johnking5174 Жыл бұрын
Breakfast Special launched in 1965 on the Light Programme. It was famous for having one of the biggest collection of bands and orchestras on it, as needle time restrictions meant very little records could be played in it's original three hour format, so bands and orchestras filled the void. Only about three records were played per hour.
@_Ben481011 ай бұрын
I remember my first ever job as a mildly rebellious & moody teenage construction worker in the 80's, & having to endure Radio 2 on the hour long drives to & from work in the company vans, & Big John Dunn was the drive time host at that time & was actually a really, really good host & dj...He had a mystery voice quiz, that would last weeks & weeks with ever increasing suspense & tense frustration for the listeners trying to guess the voice...good times, despite my no doubt moody sulky moanings demanding "Why can't we listen to Steve Wright on Radio 1...???" 😄
@johnking5174 Жыл бұрын
At 46:55 we see a band in a BBC recording studio with Rosko. There was a reason for this, due to needle time restrictions on the amount of records BBC could play per day, BBC got bands and singers into their own recording studios at BBC Broadcasting House in London to record a few songs of theirs, which would be recorded on to BBC tape, meaning when a DJ played their song from this tape it was exempted from the draconian needle time rules.
@christophertalbot90647 ай бұрын
Pity Kenny says he doesn’t consider any pop music culture, I don’t believe him
@MatthewNorthArchive9 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic film this should be re run on BBC 4 wonderful footage of Kenny.
@JJONNYREPP4 ай бұрын
BBC Man Alive The Disc Jockeys 11th Feb 70. 3.9.24. Gary Davis signing in to his radio show as peel signed out after conforming to conventional wisdom by presenting a normal radio one afternoon show..........slipping in the odd guitar based ditty....peel's brusqueness due to...............???????
@kckazcoll18 жыл бұрын
love these old Man Alive docos, also love the theme music! Be great to edit out the beginning high pitched squeal though :)
@paulm.74226 жыл бұрын
Just the countdown sequence for the VTR replay. The squeal is just to prove that audio is present.
@gerry03026 жыл бұрын
kaz coll Man Alive theme always takes me back to 65 when I started school and my surroundings oh to go back just for one day !!
@JJONNYREPP4 ай бұрын
BBC Man Alive The Disc Jockeys 11th Feb 70. 3.9.24. get me out of here is allni seem to be getting from these disc jockeys... As for Tony's love tips...don't take a bird to the cinema as one is supposed to converse to one's opposite number is sage advice....
@TheBudgie294 жыл бұрын
5:48 the record she Is plugging became a huge Hit. I have a copy of that Demo In the Picture Sleeve. It Is Murray Head doing "Jesus Christ Superstar" and a very young Yvonne Elliman doing "I Don't Know How To Love Him" from the at this point, The fourth coming Movie. 50:08 Cuddly Ken Inventing scratching, way back In 1970, brilliant. He was playing Alan Price and "Seventh Son" at the end.
@ericwhite80103 жыл бұрын
Murray head superstar was not a huge hit! Peaked at UK #47!!!! It got a lot of plays though.
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
20:20 - I adore sweet Kenny, he was really mad and lovely at the same time. Sad he passed away in 1995 from that horrible AIDs illness. Here, he is just so sweet, adorable, funny, kind, not arrogant - all the things 2020 BBC Radio 1 presenters aren't now. All ego driven asses in 2020.
@1funkyflyguy4 жыл бұрын
.....and high.
@pauloliver68133 жыл бұрын
Sorry to disagree, but there are plenty of egos on display here.
@michaelkenny85408 ай бұрын
Is this the same Kenny Everett who wanted to 'Bomb Russia' when he became a devout Thatcherite supporter? It caused quite a stir at the time and he later admitted it was a mistake for him to reveal his politics and that it cost him a lot of his fans.
@stephenchappell75127 ай бұрын
@@michaelkenny8540 I very much doubt that as most people have a sense of humour
@michaelkenny85407 ай бұрын
@@stephenchappell7512 Nope youare wrong. Kenny even admitted it was a mistake and that he regretted it. Have another try.
@daveuk13247 ай бұрын
The late great John Peel RIP. When there was real music.
@clivebaxter63547 ай бұрын
Pervert said he had girls as young as 13 lining up willing to be abused and he was happy to oblige
@philipbonner64865 ай бұрын
@cushyglen4264Your feeble words, not anyone's else's learn life by your mistakes.
@JJONNYREPP4 ай бұрын
BBC Man Alive The Disc Jockeys 11th Feb 70. 3.9.24. Roscoe....the same chap, here, as in his resurgence early 80's????
@clivebaxter63544 ай бұрын
Peel was another sex abuser who admitted to abusing 13 year olds, he married a 15 year old in the USA then in UK got a 15 year old pregnant while he was married.
@aprilapril24 ай бұрын
@@JJONNYREPPwas that emperor roscoe?
@weeflowers8140Ай бұрын
Thank you very much. Wonderful time capsule. Reminds me of discotheque disc jockeys with just one record player - they were forced to announce the next single to make time - 😀
@madskier504 ай бұрын
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.”
@BarnabyBarry Жыл бұрын
Cool video-I was a student DJ at UCLA late 70’s-remember the carts-PSA’s-music wheel colors-2 turntables-
@rickbowker10 ай бұрын
Radio one was a government controlled version of Pirate Radio , only saved by Johnny Walker, Kenny Everett and legend John Peel! My best memory is radio One banning the Sex pistols in 77 and they still got to number one!
@deborahrobertson86067 ай бұрын
I loved Kenny as a disc jockey and listened to him every week. Only a little girl but I knew genius when I heard it. It was an exceptional time.
@pigknickers29757 ай бұрын
Still miss Kenny, still miss Peel. A golden age.
@willbee79257 ай бұрын
You have a very low bar for "genius" that's for sure, Everett was annoying, irritating and borderline unwatchable unlistenable.
@deborahrobertson86067 ай бұрын
@@willbee7925 For me, it depends upon the period. I didn't like his TV persona & I didn't listen to his later broadcasting. But back in the late '60's/turn of the '70's, his creativity felt unbridled. He had a painterly approach to the technique of broadcasting - all the knobs and tape reels - conjuring up a labyrinthine imaginal world.
@TheCameraNever7 ай бұрын
@@pigknickers2975 Two absolute classics
@dlamiss9 жыл бұрын
Ironically Tony Blackburn played Melting pot on Pick of the pops today 46 years later......
@buffplums4 жыл бұрын
dlamiss and a damn great song it is as well
@edwardbennett35722 жыл бұрын
Where’s the irony in that?
@dlamiss2 жыл бұрын
Maybe in the fact he played a song on pick of the pops 46 years on radio two 46 years after playing it on radio one Ted ..
@edwardbennett35722 жыл бұрын
@@dlamiss that’s not ironic. Think you need to look up the word.
@dlamiss2 жыл бұрын
@@edwardbennett3572 Thanks for the English lesson Ted, ironically I wont use the word Irony again without asking you first. Cheers
@the100mdash9 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! I remember watching this when it was transmitted, all those decades ago. If Man Alive has been rescued from the BBC archives, i wonder if Late Night Lineup from 29th September 1967 is around or Nationwide 23rd November 1978? Both were set in the London Control Room and Continuity Suites.......
@markg68608 жыл бұрын
I somewhat doubt it. Man Alive was a weekly documentary series, so it was filmed, the edited for transmission. I think Late Night Line-up was a live broadcast, so no tapes were made.
@MrDannyDetail3 жыл бұрын
According to Getty Images, who have an online index to the surviving BBC programming for the purposes of selling clips, the only Late Night Line-Up apparently surviving from September 1967 is 26th September, though a fair few others from the rest of the year are listed. As for Nationwide on 23rd November 1978 there are five separate entries for it at Getty Images, which I think are probably all inserts rather than the completed programme. Two of the five mention Sue Lawley and Glyn Worsnip and the radio frequency changes that had happened that day, so they are perhaps what you are thinking of.
@MrTUCTUC18 жыл бұрын
Fascinating just how refined John Peel's accent. was. He might have been very critical of other presenters developing a public persona but he was subconsciously in the process of developing one all of his own.
@fisherpeter6952 жыл бұрын
Not many may be aware that John Peel - real name John Ravenscroft lived in the Hoylake suburb of Wirral on Merseyside that was the residence of Liverpool's ship owners and export companies. He attended the fee-paying Shrewsbury Public school in the 1950s which will have refined his speaking skills. His major break came when he was in Dallas Texas the day John F Kennedy was killed. He often said his connection with Liverpool gave him an opening interview for the UK News when there was no transatlantic links for TV. After which he joined the BBC. Back in the mid late 1960s I worked for a large import company in Liverpool and remember the large houses and wealth of the directors of the company.
@RedheadLondon Жыл бұрын
He blacked his copybook with a few sexual shenanigans. They said the stage at Glastonbury named after him, was going to be renamed.@@fisherpeter695
@simonmoore23807 ай бұрын
Peel didn't "develop" any kind of persona. He was same when he started with Radio 1 in 1967 as he was in 2004, the year he died. OK, he was older, and his voice sounded older, and he didn't have the long hair anymore, or look like a hippy. But there was no pretense whatsoever with Peel. What you saw was what you got. Unlike the other prats on that channel.
@RayZappa7 ай бұрын
It's really striking how public school almost everyone sounds, Peel a bit less than some of them I think. And the woman doing the interviewing!
@jono1457-qd9ft3 ай бұрын
@@simonmoore2380 not true John Peel freely admitted that his wife was the person who changed him into a more mature person.
@gerrynicol39514 жыл бұрын
Good to hear John Dunn finish his stint on b/fast a really liked the big guy.also a enjoyed Tony Blackburn each day .
@josephstanton48727 ай бұрын
There's a scene from recent movie- Boat That Rocked, Welsh actor, Fans is leaning back, reaches to his right, pile of 45s, doesn't matter what he picks, it'll be a beauty! The scene summed up the sixties! Wonderful soundtrack, starts with The Kinks!😊
@SpacemanSmee7 ай бұрын
That film come out in 2009. It is is good it’s about pirate raid ain’t it
@geoffjoffy2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Thanks.
@paulm.74226 жыл бұрын
6:14 ... very interesting ... all that breakfast food laid out without any clear-glass "cough guard" as protection.
@rentaghostokish56288 жыл бұрын
The only people I could stand in this whole documentary were Kenny Everett and John Peel. Everett was a twisted comic genius who knew far more than he was letting on. Peel had the frivolity of it all sussed from the start.
@paulm.74226 жыл бұрын
All the DJs played their part and the job required technical skill, back then. Blackburn was the "Toy Boy" and Jimmy Young had the older crowd, too (... remember that he also had to accommodate the Radio 2 listeners on his show). JY was also the highest-paid, back then. Let's also not forget that in 1967, the BBC were having to make drastic changes to their old, stale format. Combine that with the dreaded "needle time" restrictions and in hindsight, Radio One did well for what it had to work with. Compared to radio now, I miss those old days and the sheer freshness and vitality of it all!
@jimmann42846 жыл бұрын
yes Kenny was eccentric but I understanding more when had his own TV I knew was he was a bout I like john peel very cool and and down to earth the bore was tony Blackburn with the silly jokes but great voices for introduced music and records rossco a big head in nice way and a lot of time for people I like his bike . Jimmy good voice and humour that was Jimmy yoing .for old ones two I was 9 year old then jimmy Seville was a dirt bag he of course .but a good DJ. but makes sick to say that
@trevorrandom4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@michaelkenny85408 ай бұрын
@@jimmann4284 Saville was not much different from Peel or Blackburn in regards to the way they exploited the young women in the TOTP audience. Peel even admits to it and Blackburn was very much involved in the case of the young girl who took her own life
@LoneRanger1007 ай бұрын
He wasn’t very much involved at all. Get your facts right.
@stewartbootles55517 жыл бұрын
thank god for peely and cuddly Ken R.I.P.
@baronmeduse7 ай бұрын
Kenny most surely listened to the other Kenny (Williams) because his voice at 28:00 is Gruntfuttock from Round The Horne.
@pressureworks4 жыл бұрын
Emperor Rosko still going strong: In 2018, Rosko joined the line-up for the new United DJs DAB and online radio station.
@RedheadLondon Жыл бұрын
Is he still putting it about, though? He is 80 now!
@stepheng877910 ай бұрын
@@RedheadLondonSavile vibes 🤢
@RedheadLondon10 ай бұрын
@@stepheng8779 They were all at it. I don't think it is fair to think he was the only one. I read Kid Jensen say he had never slept with a groupie - indicating all the others did. Tony Blackburn said when he was married to Tessa, he used to hire a room in a hotel and take girls there after his morning programme.
@nutcracker291610 ай бұрын
@@RedheadLondon Not condoning it of course , but these days with the prying tabloids ect. He wouldn't have got away wit it. Although he's been with his second wife Debbie an ex Dancer for years now .
@RedheadLondon10 ай бұрын
@@nutcracker2916 A bit too old to be putting it about. Like Rod Stewart, you've got to stop sometime.
@Candolad9 ай бұрын
Rosko's extremely overinflated ego makes him come across as a total prat to absolutely brutal. He reminds me of Chris Evans when he started at Radio 1 breakfast in 1996.
@grahamf93517 ай бұрын
Rosko was a showman style DJ who's character borrowed heavily from Wolfman Jack an american superstar DJ who was virtually unknown in the UK.
@slowdivebreeze14 ай бұрын
They were both on Luxembourg as well
@johnking5174 Жыл бұрын
16:05 - At 10.00am weekdays Radio 1 and 2 shared the Jimmy Young Show. At 11.00am Radio 2 would leave the show and air Morning Story and Waggeners Walk until they rejoined Jimmy at 11.31am.
@cozener15 жыл бұрын
As likeable and brilliant as the late John Peel was, there is no doubt he would have been asked some uncomfortable police questioning post Saville.
@bencolemanart5 жыл бұрын
True. And lots of people would have merrily looked the other way because they thought/think he was a saint.
@niceguy235uk14 жыл бұрын
@@bencolemanart Most of them probably had a few skeletons in the closet.
@TheBudgie294 жыл бұрын
He married His then Girlfreind In America when she was just 15, then did It again In the UK when she became 21. This Is why John Is looked at as another BBC protected Nonce. Shame. I loved His show.
@anonUK8 жыл бұрын
"Can we mention the kids in the dressing rooms?" "No, best not. Some people might think there's something peculiar going on."
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
35:53 - Watching this moment now in 2021, it is obvious what Rosko had on his mind to do with this young girl in order for the record she wanted to be played by him to get played. Just swap the word "tea" for sex and you get what he was after. So blatant now when watching.
@djsimonrossprice94002 жыл бұрын
Really ??? Or your vile little mind..
@johnking51742 жыл бұрын
@@djsimonrossprice9400 No, as we now know what some of these DJs were up to back then.
@numberstation10 ай бұрын
It’s not as if the same kind of thing isn’t happening today though, is it? Unpleasant, but true.
@johnking517410 ай бұрын
@@numberstation The thing is today DJs and presenters would be shit scared to try anything like that, as now it will all be exposed.
@numberstation10 ай бұрын
@@johnking5174 I don’t wish to offend but I think you’re being a bit naive there, or perhaps just optimistic. By the way, I’m certainly not accusing Rosko of any wrongdoing at all. He hardly needed any subterfuge to bed women. On the contrary, he was beating them off with a shitty stick.
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
In 1970 the needle time restrictions imposed on the BBC was really harsh. Amounting to 7 hours of pop records allowed to be played per day. This meant a huge amount of orchestras, bands, BBC orchestras, organ music, live sessions etc had to be used to fill their 21 hour schedule each day.
@James_BAlert2 жыл бұрын
So John which stations did you go to to listen to continuous pop & rock music, Radio Luxembourg, AFN, Continental radio broadcasters, pirate stations? Who was responsible for this dumb restriction, unions, entertainers, commercial enterprises?🤔
@johnking51742 жыл бұрын
@@James_BAlert The music unions were responsible. They wanted people to buy the records, and not be content with hearing them played everyday on air. Also, they knew tape recorders was becoming popular, with people recording the records off radio, and saving them money from buying the records. That is why this stupid rule came into force since radio began really with the BBC in the 1920s. I am lucky, we never had any restrictions as these in America. Radio stations played as much as they wanted.
@warpedpassages16812 жыл бұрын
Originally the BBC had very strict policies about not advertising products, so virtually no records were played if they could be identified. Seven hours per day was a luxury compared to the early days.
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
3:06 - I love this sentence from 1970, that the BBC did not splash out on huge salaries for the Radio 1 presenters. Now in 2021 that has all changed, and people like Greg James of the Breakfast Show earn around £275,000 a year, Scott Mills pockets near £345,000 a year. BBC claim it is down to competition which is more fierce in 2021 than 1970.
@markg68602 жыл бұрын
Commercial radio does not pay very much, either, other than to the very top names. Radio is not that attractive to most youngsters, as the pay is crap. With that, there is far less talent being developed, so a shortage is looming. Radio stations brought it all on, themselves.
@kernowarty7 ай бұрын
Kenny Everett unknowingly inventing "Scracthing" records at the end of this doc.
@ON8EI7 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, lovely to remember the 70's. ;-)
@helenhughes94202 жыл бұрын
John peel, Kenny Everett genuinely nice guys !!
@johnking51742 жыл бұрын
I would place a large caution note over John Peel, with some very strong rumours about him. In 1975 he was quoted as saying about women "All they wanted me to do was abuse them, sexually, which, of course, I was only too happy to do". In an interview published by The Herald in April 2004 stated that Peel admitted to sexual contact with "an awful lot" of underage girls.
@RedheadLondon Жыл бұрын
The Glastonbury stage named after him was going to be renamed.@@johnking5174
@GB-vn1tf7 ай бұрын
@@johnking5174 that being said, and of course not right if they were young, but it takes two to tango. The entire music industry had groupies falling over themselves to bed the superstars of the day including a group of groupies in LA that certain starts passed around. Jimmy Page was involved with one girl from that group who was 14/15. She has done very well from throwing herself at rock gods of the day. Again, that doesn't make it right, it just shows how then, as now, this continues in the entertainment industry.
@MrYahudeejay9 жыл бұрын
Great document about a few great deejays of '60, '70. They were masta and guru to us - kids that time - but future deejays also :-))))
@paulm.74226 жыл бұрын
Sadly, today's DJs have little real skill, since computers took over the technical side. Also, most radio work is now so low-paying, that there is little incentive for young people to want to join the industry.
@danw1374 Жыл бұрын
@@paulm.7422 Sad but true
@trevorrandom5 жыл бұрын
Those people with cardboard tubes listening to the speakers in that factory...
@kevinmorrow54677 жыл бұрын
John Peel and Kenny Everett, the only two who pointed to the future. The best on BBC 1 at the time.
@aquaboy68 Жыл бұрын
John peel was another savile....paedo
@garyhillman49937 ай бұрын
I miss man alive. Great intro music
@gerry03027 ай бұрын
The Music always reminds me of the sixties when I was growing up..
@Agnethatheredhairkid4 жыл бұрын
Kenny Everett - Absolute genius! I noticed a Maurice Everitt in the credits. Kenny's birth name was Maurice Cole.
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
Maurice Everitt was a sound producer at the BBC. He worked mostly on documentaries.
@aminorchacha7 ай бұрын
Jimmy Young had been a genuine pop star in the 1950s with two number one records in the U.K. chart and 10 top ten hits long before he became a DJ. He knew more about the music business than the rest of them put together. I still have a copy of his cook book compiled from recipes submitted by his radio listeners.
@goodiesguy7 жыл бұрын
Anyone know the instrumental piece the girls are dancing to at the start around 2:20?
@TheMockatiel4 ай бұрын
25:05 what an absolute breath of fresh air 💝
@elaineborthwick989 Жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the location of the Roscoe gig in the first few minutes?
@evtigger16432 жыл бұрын
Do you have the man alive episode coming of age? My late father is in it and I’d love to find it.
@LeighRichards278 жыл бұрын
is the blonde girl among the throng of so called 'teenyboppers' gathered around rosko at 40.17 into the programme claire mcalpine?
@danw13745 жыл бұрын
I'm certain it is her. Poor girl took her own life.
@lennylaa16864 жыл бұрын
Yes, she took a pills overdose at home and died on 29th March, 1971. She left a diary with allegations of sexual abuse, very likely Savile. She met certain DJ's after appearing as a dancer on TOTP, aged only 15. Naively thought she could get into the pop world, probably duped into sex with the promise of show biz work .
@Treviscoe2 жыл бұрын
@@danw1374 Oh no! Tragic.
@FiveLiver7 ай бұрын
40:17
@thelancashirehotpots9 жыл бұрын
Great stuff
@gotham615 жыл бұрын
Tony Blackburn went to the same school as I did @ 5.29.
@RedheadLondon Жыл бұрын
It said it was the most expensive in Britain! More than Eton?
@gotham61 Жыл бұрын
@@RedheadLondon 60 years ago Millfield was Britain's most expensive school. That's no longer the case. I just checked the current fees, and Millfield is UKP 15,925 per term, and Eton College is 16,666 per term. There are three terms per year.
@RedheadLondon Жыл бұрын
@@gotham61 I have always thought Eton and Harrow were the most prestigious schools in the UK. I have not heard of Millfield.
@gotham61 Жыл бұрын
@@RedheadLondon It's a somewhat younger and more progressive school than those two more traditional examples, and it's especially well known for its sports programs. Plenty of well known people went there, in addition to Mr Blackburn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_educated_at_Millfield
@lennylaa16864 жыл бұрын
Recently returned from America, John Peel seems to have lost his scouse accent. Did he ever have one? It was re-discovered a few years later!
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
John was born in Liverpool but spent two years doing National Service in army which meant his accent might have loosened. He then left for the states in 1960 and spent nearly seven years resident there. So again his accent would have faded. I was born in Northern Ireland, but everyone says now my accent is gone, replaced with a more standard English accent, it is what you develop from people you listen to who are around you each day.
@RedheadLondon Жыл бұрын
He went to a fee paying school, so probably never had a broad accent, and living in the US, would have to get rid of it anyway, as they would not understand scouse. He changed his name from Ravenscroft, as they though Americans would not be able to pronounce it, so he had to modify his accent as well, I suppose.
@Beatle14073 жыл бұрын
48:47 "Are DJ's really neccessary?" 50years later - hello Spotify/Apple music/Amazon music/You Tube etc... :) Though I do miss Kenny Everrett & John Peel. Jimmy Young had the feel that he didn't take himself too seriously & his shows were good. "Emperor" Rosko & Tony Blackburn on the other hand didn't come out of this looking good.....just sayin'.....
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
Rosko looked like a sex perv in this. Notice how one key person on Radio 1 back then was not involved, Jimmy Savile.
@thewkovacs3167 ай бұрын
john peel was the greatest dj who ever lived i say that as an american
@SuckasNeverPlayMe7 ай бұрын
True story - I was working at Glastonbury festival, can't remember which year, but I was in a stand up men's toilet, a trough... Behind me I hear "so this is where all the big nobs hang out is it? Ha ha". I knew it was John Peel. I turned round to shake his hand, he looked at it and went "nah you're allrite mate" 🤣
@phillipecook32277 ай бұрын
The generation of Radio 1 DJs from over half a century ago were individually brilliant in their own unique ways tho at the time I suppose I like millions of other listeners simply took it all for granted. JP was superb if you wanted your music cerebral without entertainment, Tony like many other DJs was an entertainer who loved music ( and the wake up voice for generations of people early in the morning). Kenny Everett was bordering on genius and then their was Alan Freeman, Rosko, Dave Cash etc al .....
@yell506 жыл бұрын
Well this is proof how the BBC used to turned a blind eye to inappropriate behavior from its staff 4:03 Rosko kisses a your girl on the mouth, apart from this its a fascinating look into the past.
@jayrox403 жыл бұрын
Groupies perks of the job. Still happens today.
@yell503 жыл бұрын
@@jayrox40No it dont happen today unless it happens behind closed doors the BBC can no longer turn a blind eye as they did decades ago it took a sandal like Jimmy Savile and other lesser known DJ's to bring pure embarrassment to BBC.....
@nutcracker291610 ай бұрын
@@yell50 John Peel has since been accused of suspect behaviour. That's why the Glastonbury stage that was named after him has been changed.
@katewolfspirit67227 ай бұрын
The dirty BBC still proudly display their pedo statue outside Broadcasting House to this very day.
@GB-vn1tf7 ай бұрын
@@yell50 it definitely still happens. The entire entertainment industry is full of it. Its just hidden better now......Hugh Edwards told me. 😉
@GARY.943 жыл бұрын
How well John peel new his colleagues!. He's Spot on!. Regards.
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see that nowhere in this documentary do we see a Mr Savile. The production chose to ignore him, even though he was associated a lot with the launch of Radio 1.
@GARY.943 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 1-month later I'm alerted to your post lol. You do have a very good point about that!. Hmmm . Regards.
@RedheadLondon Жыл бұрын
DLT not there either?
@desmondrobinson1697 ай бұрын
Knew
@johnking51742 жыл бұрын
19:15 - that £40 a week in 1969 when this was filmed worked out at just over £2,000 a year salary, which was very good in 1969. Today that £2,000 salary would be worth around £37,000 in 2022 values. Peanuts compared to the salaries earned by Radio 1 presenters now in 2022, averaging between £150,000 and £400,000 a year for the presenters.
@kesgreen463911 ай бұрын
Actually just under £28000. Less than the median wage. Mind you, you could probably still buy a house with that salary at the time...
@johnking517411 ай бұрын
@@kesgreen4639 Inflation calculators online all have a different amount for valuing. The one I used in 2022 said around £28,000.
@thomaskemp9048 ай бұрын
Yewtree would have a field day with this
@louisgreen39157 ай бұрын
I want to know what speakers Kenny was listening to at his home. They look like a pair of early Leaks. Does anybody know?
@Ian-gw2vx7 ай бұрын
I turned 3 the day this was broadcast 😃I remember Jimmy Young in the 80s on Radio 2. There was always a bit of banter between him and Wogan as they passed the batten. I don't remember Roscoe.
@lindseykerr Жыл бұрын
Great footage of Kenny Everrett - The man was a genius - He knew exactly how to engage that listener! - Theartre of the mind - Sadly missed - Often mimicked but never bettered! I do have some concerns about Rosko tho - proper perv in my opinion and totally unacceptable behaviours especially with those young girls!
@chridignan91787 ай бұрын
OMG on so many levels. Lovely
@patrickcrowther91952 жыл бұрын
Kenny Everett with The Band’s second album. Good man.
@paulyeats478926 күн бұрын
Yes,I noticed that as well. One of my favourite albums. I still have it.
@salvadormarley6 жыл бұрын
Why do I always want to hear Tony Blackburn say Pans People?
@TelevisionVault8 жыл бұрын
"Today the BBC, TOMORROW....ITV if they'll have me!" Funnily how he said that in 1970...! Fascinating look at Cuddly Ken at work and rest. At least he seemed as at home in his material recording studio as Rosko was flinging singles around his studio and annoying John Peel with his mess...!
@pauloliver68133 жыл бұрын
Fascinating how the sexual predation that is so unacceptable now was so openly discussed and referenced here, just part of "how it is".
@mintythemoose7 ай бұрын
Blackburn is a legend and a lovely man.
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
3:30 - Very disturbing watching this young girl talking about Rosko here. She says she hears his voice and "imagines him" - and I think we know what she imagines him doing to her.
@mushroom_coloured_stepthro2 жыл бұрын
You're judging by today's standards. Back then Jackie magazine et al was informing girls how to kiss but by the '80's teen mags had more promiscuous articles. She was more likely dreaming of romance and being the 'one'. ...edit: although after reading more comments agree about Rosko and the older blonde girl who would/should've been more aware of the industry she was in. Good observation about Saville too.
@susandavorn32497 ай бұрын
Why? Young girls having romantic/sexual fantasies and crushes is hardly unusual.
@_Ben481011 ай бұрын
I just love seeing the canteen ladies giving Tony Blackburn some cheeky backchat, & Irene Cooke opening Tony's post...in the days when BBC Radio cared about their listenership & decades before the pinhead & weasel management types of today hollowed it out from the inside to make it the supposedly cash-strapped short-of-budget failing corporation we are slowly losing...
@johnking51746 ай бұрын
Jimmy Young shouldn't have been on Radio 1 from the start. He simply didn't fit in. Radio 2 was his home. Radio 1 should have had dedicated Radio 1 hosts and programming from 7am to 7pm and 10pm to Midnight from the very start in 1967. Yes, needle time restrictions and budgets, but if the BBC did care, it could have worked.
@w1lf1ewoo3 жыл бұрын
Strange to notice that what comes forth from most DJs mouths is so incredibly puerile that it makes you wonder what qualifies someone to be one ~ I suppose we (the listener) just want something in our ear that bounces along to cheer along with the gibberish we all have in our heads most of the time
@nutcracker291610 ай бұрын
Ironically John Peel came across as decent, but like Saville was accused of inappropriate behaviour . The Glastonbury stage named after him , has now been changed.
@michaelkenny85408 ай бұрын
He never made any secret of it at the time and used to boast about how young his 'girl friends' were.
@slowdivebreeze14 ай бұрын
Remember this was the era of the sexual revolution, no point trying to equate it to the me too generation. This would be like someone in the late 60’s thinking how prudish they were in 1920
@harryurz7 ай бұрын
As a Rock/Metal fanatic i always felt Fluff Freeman and Tommy Vance were the only DJs worth listening to. Watching this I feel I was 100% right.......
@TheCameraNever7 ай бұрын
Without Peel, much of the music many of us love would never have been given any airtime.
@Tim0917 ай бұрын
100% agree. Radio One was unlistenable other than the Friday Night Rock Show. I loved it when Fluff sat in for TV and used to really heavy it up!
@Springamatul7 ай бұрын
This was broadcast about fifty four years ago it looks as if it was just yesterday 😄
@stephenhowell561111 ай бұрын
Madeline Bell and Blue Mink at 30:38
@buffplums7 ай бұрын
Blimey plenty of spiders legs around 2:11 👀 👀 😂😂😂
@pressureworks4 жыл бұрын
Hope more and more of The Man Alive series will be loaded up on YT (there were 500 made)
@nguyendailam67034 жыл бұрын
BBC probably lost most of the tapes.
@danw13743 жыл бұрын
@@nguyendailam6703 For the most part, master tapes were often reused with no backups made.
@gold27b3 жыл бұрын
This looks like it was film that has been kept, because the colours are going pink.
@sirPUNKsir7 ай бұрын
That Roscoe guy.... every consecutive scene he becomes a bigger cartoon Lothario. (wonders what the Operation Yew tree file is like on him)
@gehegedrei5 жыл бұрын
Is there a record with this version of Tony Hatch's "Man Alive"?
@jerrycrowe627 ай бұрын
Yes a 7" single on the pye label.
@jozefserf202414 күн бұрын
Radio always featured a fair slice of sleight of hand, but at least back then the 'news' wasn't forced down our throats for minutes on end every hour after hour.
@Thecrazyvaclav8 ай бұрын
Emperor rosco comes across as a egotistical prick in this
@michaelharrison36027 ай бұрын
They all were:Rosco,Savile, DLT talentless nobodies wallowing in their 15 minutes of fame 😂
@baronmeduse7 ай бұрын
Probably only his American citizenship in the way of a police investigation of him and his 'relationship' with the fans,
@danw13746 ай бұрын
He stands out like a sore thumb.
@christopherhulse83853 жыл бұрын
Tony Blackburn still going strong today!
@neilforbes4164 ай бұрын
49:18 Disc Jockeys are *NOT, AND NEVER WILL BE* more important than the music they play.
@danw13743 ай бұрын
The music should always be the central thing. John Peel had it right. God I miss that bloke!
@neilforbes4163 ай бұрын
@@danw1374 Especially on FM radio where the main selling point is, or was Hi-Fi Stereo.
@johnsweeney89347 ай бұрын
Not mentioned here becaause it was on Capital Radio probably the best pop music show of that era was Kenny and Cash on Sunday afternoons. Dave Cash was a great DJ and kept Kenny in his place.