Bye bye me old mate.
RIP Brian Matthew
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Lovely man, great broadcaster. Will give the Fabs Live At the Beeb a blast later.
I knew it! The sixties will never die, maaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Let’s rock… Brian at his best, November 1967:
https://soundcloud.com/colinh-1/pink-champagne
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.
And just a few days after the other beloved Brian.
Too soon?
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.
Not even DONOVAN?
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
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
Reports of his death have been exaggerated
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39500773
Has Gerry Rafferty been told?
No, but I believe “..and he will be raised back to life” was, er, Matthew 20:19.
As Tony B might say, SENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSATIONAL!
Let’s groove…
https://soundcloud.com/colinh-1/respoken
I don’t believe deaths until reported in the daily telegraph……..(as in Swarbrick, Dave)
Apparently it’s happened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39541162
What, again?
RIP Brian. That’s your lot for this life, see you in the next.
Hey ho, too short a gap. Sad news. I have a Swarb signed Telegraph obit, don’t suppose our old chum had time.
This Sunday on Radio 2 (repeated from 2012): The Brian Matthew Story http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b8vhc