Tag: Live Aid
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RIP Janice Long
RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…
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Make Chuggers* History
This whole Live8 thing has left me cold; Damon Albarn was right, it’s ‘too darn Anglo Saxon’ and simplistic; anybody above the age of 5 knows that Africa is a big complex place and world-wide pop concerts won’t solve it. Poverty is even larger… But like Princess Di this seems to be the uncriticisable, the…