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Post by metro1962 on Jan 12, 2024 13:58:05 GMT
Legendary Radio 1 DJ as passed away.
RIP Anne.
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Post by ltd on Jan 12, 2024 16:28:34 GMT
I was never a regular listener of hers, but I do remember as a young grebo, being impressed by her filling in for Tommy Vance on the Friday Rock Show one night back in 1986. Always came across as genuine music fan.
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Post by AlanH on Jan 12, 2024 16:57:14 GMT
One of a kind, which is what she was when she was added to the Radio 1 roster in 1970 - the only woman among all those men. She was certainly distinctive and a genuine music aficionado, which set her aside from many of her male colleagues who seemed to be awful poseurs... I'd certainly put her on the same pedestal that I'd otherwise reserve for John Peel. A proper music broadcaster and journalist. Legendary is definitely an apposite description when it came to Annie Nightingale. A great loss. RIP.
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Post by artyboy1973 on Jan 12, 2024 18:28:50 GMT
Sad news. I loved listening to the Annie Nightingale’s request show straight after the Top 40 every Sunday evening in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Happy days those were. RIP.
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Post by daz on Jan 13, 2024 1:11:58 GMT
Very much deserving of the title of Legend.
To make it in a male dominated industry when she did and in her own terms, was unique. I've read her biography and she took no sh*t in a time when it wasn't easy to do so. It cost her at times too.
To still love new music in her 80s and still be part of arguably the countries biggest radio station for the nations youth is a measure of what she stood for.
Definitely one of the one off brigade. The likes of which will never be seen again.
RIP
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Post by Portland Road on Jan 16, 2024 8:47:49 GMT
I used to listen to Anne's Sunday evening request show quite regularly in the 80s, where I recall hearing e.g., such as Half Man Half Biscuit and Guns N' Roses for the first time.
I didn't really follow her career closely after this, but like John Peel she rode through the Matthew Bannister changes at Radio One - these did bring about the end of her Sunday evening show in 1994, but she gained a weekend overnight show instead.
R.I.P. Anne Nightingale - I never got used to her being called 'Annie'.
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Post by billymedhurst on Jan 19, 2024 20:24:37 GMT
RIP. Always Annie to me. Really liked her on the OGWT, way better than Boring Bob Harris. And a Brighton girl too.
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Post by daz on Jan 19, 2024 23:52:31 GMT
I used to listen to Anne's Sunday evening request show quite regularly in the 80s, where I recall hearing e.g., such as Half Man Half Biscuit and Guns N' Roses for the first time. I didn't really follow her career closely after this, but like John Peel she rode through the Matthew Bannister changes at Radio One - these did bring about the end of her Sunday evening show in 1994, but she gained a weekend overnight show instead. R.I.P. Anne Nightingale - I never got used to her being called 'Annie'. On Gambos show last Sunday night, he spoke very fondly of her and referred to her as Anne. |
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