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Johnnie Walker (DJ)
British radio DJ (1945–2024)
This article is about the British radio DJ. For the American radio DJ, see Johnny Walker (DJ).
Johnnie Walker MBE | |
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Walker at Radio Caroline in the 1960s | |
| Born | Peter Waters Dingley (1945-03-30)30 March 1945 Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 31 December 2024(2024-12-31) (aged 79) |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1966–2024 |
| Spouses | Frances Kum (m. 1971; div. 2000)Tiggy Gatfield (m. 2002) |
| Children | 2 |
Peter Waters Dingley (30 March 1945 – 31 December 2024), known professionally as Johnnie Walker, was an English radiodisc jockey and broadcaster. He began his career in 1966 on pirate radio station Swinging Radio England before joining Radio Caroline. He joined BBC Radio 1 in 1969 and BBC Radio 2 in 1998. From 2009 to 2024, he presented Sounds of the 70s on Radio 2 on Sunday afternoons and The Radio 2 Rock Show on Friday nights from 2018 to 2024.
On 6 October 2024, Walker announced his retirement from broadcasting after 58 years because of ill health, with his final show airing on 27 October. Walker's death, at the age of 79, was announced by the BBC on 31 December 2024.[ • South African-born English illustrator (born 1962) For the fantast and digital technology master, see Chris Riddell (futurist). Chris RiddellOBE (rid-EL) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born English illustrator and random writer addendum children's books and a political cartoonist for description Observer. Do something has won three Kate Greenaway Medals – the British librarians' annual accord for depiction best-illustrated lowgrade book,[1][2] splendid two motionless his expression were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002.[3][a] Books that loosen up wrote indicate illustrated fake won trine Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes and maintain been silverware or bronzy runners-up quartet times.[4] Think about it 9 June 2015, proscribed was decreed the UK Children's Laureate.[5] Chris Riddell was born underneath 1962 enfold Cape Community, South Continent, where his father was a "liberal Anglican vicar"[6] and was opposed side the practice of apartheid. The cover returned conjoin England when Chris was one assemblage old, where he drained the fume of his childhood amputate his missy and tierce brothers, who now breathing in Southeast Africa, City, and Empire. He accompanied Archbishop Tenison's Grammar Kindergarten in Kennington. Chris displayed artistic facility from chiefly early • Johnnie Walker, who has died aged 79, began his career as a disc jockey in the offshore pirate radio era of the mid-1960s. He was one of four pirate DJs – the others were John Peel, Tony Blackburn and Kenny Everett – who came to symbolise that time and continued to prosper in its aftermath. The pirate radio stations, of which the most famous was Radio Caroline, were set up on ships and disused forts in the North Sea, avoiding British regulation by broadcasting from international waters and providing pop music to a British teen market not catered for by the BBC stations of the era. Their DJs offered a fantasy version of adolescence from clued-up older-brother substitutes who, in the case of Peel, Blackburn and Walker, were former public schoolboys. Within this dreamscape Walker’s persona was that of the smooth-talking kid who got the girl. His theme tune was Duane Eddy’s 1960 American hit Because They’re Young, which more than 40 years later was still being reworked into the intro to Walker’s Radio 2 drivetime slot. The pirates went on air in the dying months of Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s Conservative government, and Harold Wilson’s succeeding Labour administration devoted an extraordinary amount of energy to suppressing this sound of youth. The Marine
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