I grew up with Saturday Club in the early 60s, then Easybeat on Sundays, on the old Light Programme when pop and rock was a rarity on the radio. Along with Thank Your Luck Stars, he introduced me to music I listen to to this day. Thanks me old mate.
I’m really saddened by this. His was the only show I listened to on the radio (apart from tuning in for Ken Bruce’s Popmaster if I’m near a radio). Like Tony Blackburn, he was someone who genuinely liked the music he was playing and his show introduced me to many new songs that I hadn’t heard. If Moose is listening to the Beatles at the Beeb, I’ll stick Foot Tapper on.
Boy, has his stock risen over the last few months.
Question: Is there any other person who can come anywhere close to featuring on official releases by The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who (catch the brilliant interaction with Keith Moon at the end of “Happy Jack”), The Zombies, The Pretty Things, Dusty Springfield, The Small Faces and The Yardbirds?
STOP PRESS: Apparently Brian is “critically ill” as at 2.30 p.m. Not good, obviously, but the news of his death was premature.
He’s on “Bowie At The Beeb” too, still sounds exactly the same, God bless him…
Apparently as recently as a few years ago SOTS was the UK radio show with the widest “reach”, i.e. the highest %age of available listeners of any programme at time of broadcast… even as he’s hanging on, we all know he’ll be widely missed
Moose the Mooche says
Lovely man, great broadcaster. Will give the Fabs Live At the Beeb a blast later.
Moose the Mooche says
I knew it! The sixties will never die, maaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Colin H says
Let’s rock… Brian at his best, November 1967:
https://soundcloud.com/colinh-1/pink-champagne
NigelT says
I grew up with Saturday Club in the early 60s, then Easybeat on Sundays, on the old Light Programme when pop and rock was a rarity on the radio. Along with Thank Your Luck Stars, he introduced me to music I listen to to this day. Thanks me old mate.
Paul Wad says
I’m really saddened by this. His was the only show I listened to on the radio (apart from tuning in for Ken Bruce’s Popmaster if I’m near a radio). Like Tony Blackburn, he was someone who genuinely liked the music he was playing and his show introduced me to many new songs that I hadn’t heard. If Moose is listening to the Beatles at the Beeb, I’ll stick Foot Tapper on.
minibreakfast says
And just a few days after the other beloved Brian.
minibreakfast says
Too soon?
deramdaze says
Boy, has his stock risen over the last few months.
Question: Is there any other person who can come anywhere close to featuring on official releases by The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who (catch the brilliant interaction with Keith Moon at the end of “Happy Jack”), The Zombies, The Pretty Things, Dusty Springfield, The Small Faces and The Yardbirds?
STOP PRESS: Apparently Brian is “critically ill” as at 2.30 p.m. Not good, obviously, but the news of his death was premature.
Moose the Mooche says
Not even DONOVAN?
metal mickey says
He’s on “Bowie At The Beeb” too, still sounds exactly the same, God bless him…
Apparently as recently as a few years ago SOTS was the UK radio show with the widest “reach”, i.e. the highest %age of available listeners of any programme at time of broadcast… even as he’s hanging on, we all know he’ll be widely missed
minibreakfast says
Good lord! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39500773?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
dai says
Reports of his death have been exaggerated
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39500773
attackdog says
Has Gerry Rafferty been told?
minibreakfast says
No, but I believe “..and he will be raised back to life” was, er, Matthew 20:19.
Colin H says
As Tony B might say, SENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSATIONAL!
Let’s groove…
https://soundcloud.com/colinh-1/respoken
retropath2 says
I don’t believe deaths until reported in the daily telegraph……..(as in Swarbrick, Dave)
Colin H says
Apparently it’s happened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39541162
minibreakfast says
What, again?
RIP Brian. That’s your lot for this life, see you in the next.
retropath2 says
Hey ho, too short a gap. Sad news. I have a Swarb signed Telegraph obit, don’t suppose our old chum had time.
minibreakfast says
This Sunday on Radio 2 (repeated from 2012): The Brian Matthew Story http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b8vhc