Radio KBIM: Radio Fun in Roswell
Report by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1972
CLOSE TO Albuquerque, New Mexico, as we hung motionless on the streaming white trans-America road, the voice on the radio-dial faded and returned in yet another ...

Kid Jensen
Report and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1972
KID JENSEN IS probably more able to make or break an album than any other radio jockey in the free world. His two-hour show is transmitted ...

What’s happenin’ Jack?! Wolfman Jack
Interview by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, January 1974
WAS HE BLACK? Was he white? Was he young? Was he old? Was he human? Until the seventies he was just a disembodied croak, howling and ...

John Peel's Perfumed Garden
Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, May 1977
THERE IS no need to ask where John Peel was in the summer of love. Anybody with enough brain-cells left to recall the era will know ...

Annie Nightingale Joins The Old Grey Whistle Test
Profile and Interview by Bob Woffinden, NME, September 1978
WHY THE BBC MAKES YOUNG WOMEN CARRY OUT THIS HIDEOUS ANCIENT RITUAL ...

Disc Jockeys
Overview by Tony Russell, The History of Rock, 1981
The men who turned the USA on to rock

DISK JOCKEYING IS AN OLD TRADE – but not perhaps, an old name: music-biz archaeologists have found ...

Alan Freed: Mr Rock'n'Roll
Retrospective by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1982
Alan Freed, the man responsible for giving rock'n'roll its name, was many things to many people. To some, he was the original Mr Clean, an innocent ...

John Peel: Two Decades On
Profile and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Q, December 1986
JOHN PEEL IS sitting in his pyjamas in the kitchen of his Suffolk home. It is a Sunday afternoon. On the wall is a Radio 1 ...

John Peel: Man Of The Match
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, November 1989
Guru to innumerable pale and interesting persons, champion of all things noisesome and "challenging", fully paid-up Good Bloke... When John Peel celebrated his 50th birthday the ...

KISS Pirate Enterprise
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, Sunday Correspondent, April 1990
The duties of KISS pirate radio DJs once included rigging rooftop transmitters and guarding the door. Now Saatchi’s are telling them: "Your account is worth more ...

John Peel
Interview by Alex Ogg, Spiral Scratch, May 1991
NOT THAT any introduction is really necessary, but how about this: ...

John Peel at 60
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, August 1999
"WHY DO people always have a go at Belgium?" ...

Morning Becomes Harcourt
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
How a Brummie came to host the most respected public radio show in L.A. ...

Sara Cox: Vox Cox
Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Observer, June 2001
IT'S 7AM AND the tall, pretty young woman I'm watching work has clearly not been out of bed too long. Her blonde hair is tied carelessly ...

The List
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, October 2001
Two decades on, 'The Unheard Music' is still the music you need to hear ...

An Audience With John Peel
Interview by Nick Doherty, Jockey Slut, 2002
Celeb 1: Howie B: With this playlist culture, when do you decide what's going to be played on your radio ...

Steven Van Zandt
Interview by Graham Reid, New Zealand Herald, March 2003
SILVIO DANTE, Tony Soprano's loyal soldier and owner of the famous Bada Bing strip club, is in the lobby bar of a Sydney hotel and, as ...

The Ramones Connection: Steven Van Zandt Explains The Secret Ingredient Behind His Garage-Rock Radio Show
Interview by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, August 2003
WHEN BRUCE Springsteen slipped into his Baptist-preacher mode and acknowledged E Street Band members at the Forum in Inglewood last year, he concluded his round-robin introductions ...

John Peel RIP
Obituary by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2004
LONG BEFORE we met, John Peel felt like a good friend. For those millions of us who spent our adolescence glued to his late-night radio show, ...

Great Unsung Heroes Of Rock'n'Roll Radio
Overview by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, August 2005
Do you remember Murray the K
Alan Freed and high energy?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?
(The ...

All Bands on Deck: Pirate Radio and The Boat That Rocked
Report and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, March 2009
FOR A FEW WEEKS last spring, a corner of Shepperton Studios became the nerve centre of the fictional pirate station, Radio Rock. Mounted on a hydraulic ...