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Post by coyote on Dec 26, 2021 13:14:59 GMT
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Post by McCann on Dec 26, 2021 14:09:00 GMT
Just reading that, she was a real fixture on the 80s TOTP growing up. Young age and sad to go on Christmas day.
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Post by brinylonshirt on Dec 27, 2021 0:31:34 GMT
I loved her weekday evening shows on R1 in the mid 1980s - a great mix of pop and indie and interviews.
She did an interview a few months ago looking back on her career, she was in good spirits but her voice was not 100%.
Tribute from Morrissey here:
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Post by ned on Dec 28, 2021 23:15:19 GMT
Used to enjoy her late night show on Radio 2. They made a real mistake when they dropped her and Alex Lester, and not the first time she was treated shabbily by the BBC.
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Post by gra966 on Dec 29, 2021 18:22:11 GMT
Really sad news . I only heard about this today . She appeared in " The Best Selling Singles of 1979 " , shown on Christmas Eve on Channel 5 , which had only been made recently . R.I.P Janice
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Post by chopper on Dec 29, 2021 19:08:09 GMT
Really sad news . I only heard about this today . She appeared in " The Best Selling Singles of 1979 " , shown on Christmas Eve on Channel 5 , which had only been made recently . R.I.P Janice Yes, seen that - and as said, very sad news. A very good presenter. |
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Post by Portland Road on Dec 30, 2021 6:03:32 GMT
Perhaps without intent, John Peel and David Jensen emerged as a great duo presenting TOTP in the mid-80s, and when David left the BBC, Janice assumed his role and also did a sterling job. This was at a time when music was getting cheesier and their links were often the highlight of the show  I always think of Janice as part of the post-New Wave music scene, and particularly championing north-west England/Irish/Scottish acts in that period, no doubt due to her Liverpool roots. U2, Killing Joke, Echo & The Bunnymen, Orange Juice, China Crisis, The Mighty Wah!, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Smiths and The Christians spring to mind. Yet it was also a period when indie/guitar music was less popular, and I understand she got into dispute with Radio One when she wanted to take maternity leave in 1987 - she wasn't married, and this was still a time of a "stuffy" old guard at the BBC. She did continue on TOTP a while longer, but didn't return to Radio One, which is a pity because the indie-dance-rave scene was emerging, and like Gary Davies I think she could have championed this on a daytime Radio One show. I can imagine her being keen on e.g. 808 State, The Farm, Primal Scream and the Bill Drummond-Jimmy Cauty acts (The KLF etc). Later she was good on an overnight show on Radio Two (midnight - 0300hrs IIRC) - I sometimes caught it when I was on shift work. R.I.P. Janice Long. |
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Post by plasticpenguin on Jan 1, 2022 6:16:17 GMT
Crikey this is the first I've heard about Janice. Often listened to her Radio 1 & 2 shows.
R.I.P. Janice Long
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Post by Portland Road on Jan 12, 2022 23:06:04 GMT
Janice was of the same Radio One period as Mike Read, Steve Wright, Gary Davies, Mike Smith and Bruno Brookes, i.e. after the 'classic Smashie n Nicies' (Tony Blackburn, Simes, DLT etc) but before the late-period of e.g. Simon Mayo, Nicky Campbell and Mark Goodier.
I suspect that if she had stayed at Radio One after 1987, she would have gravitated to the shows that Jakki Brambles presented, i.e. early evenings (Mon-Fri) from 1989 succeeding Bruno Brookes and then lunchtimes (Mon-Fri) from 1992 succeeding Gary Davies.
Though I doubt she would have survived the Matthew Bannister-led changes of 1993. No DJs from pre-1986, with the notable exception of John Peel (& to a lesser extent Annie Nightingale & Johnnie Walker), seemed to manage this.
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Post by thewoodster on Jan 23, 2022 21:44:27 GMT
Rip Janice long.
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