Steve Wright no longer in the afternoon.

[Beardy]

Your kidding.

Not any more though

RIP

[robgul]

Died, 69 years old . .  I read the other day he was lined up to front a sort of "BBC Gold" channel with 50/60/70s music

[robgul]

Ah - Beardy beat me by a minute (must type faster)

[canny colin]

Get the Geese off . End of an era of brilliant entertainment from the radio. RIP Steve . 

[Jaded]

He's thrown the phone down.

[Ian H]

Half a century ago (or slightly more) I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg whilst on night shift at a self-service (a novelty then) garage.  But it seems that was long before Wright joined them.  My tolerance of DJ-type music programmes is virtually zero now.

[The Family Cyclist]

I'm tempted to go to his funeral and talk over the end of all the music to make it more like his radio shows

[Ian H]

I'm tempted to go to his funeral and talk over the end of all the music to make it more like his radio shows

Isn't that a deliberate thing to stop you recording it for free?

[Jurek]

I confess to having been a fan in the early 80s - I was in my early-twenties.
Stuff has moved on since then.
I've not heard his output of late.
69 seems young.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

That is a shock.  Early in my career, driving back from client meetings, his show kept me sane on the M3 or M4 traffic.  (I guess I was never that keen on the Radio 1 playlist - and there just weren't so many radio channels then). 

[sam]

Don't listen to a lot of radio. I remember him mostly from TotP.

[T42]

Never heard of him. Obviously got out of UK too soon.  In that respect.

[rr]

Sad, very young and appears to be unexpected given the plans being made.
Hated the "speak your branes" show though.

[sam]

My wife says the beeb have been repeating stuff a lot lately, so once his death is no longer news, perhaps they'll quietly reintroduce him to the afternoon (going by the thread title; I have no idea what he was up to these days).

[citoyen]

My tolerance of DJ-type music programmes is virtually zero now.

Same here (though I do like Radcliffe & Maconie on 6music). But like it or not, I have to admit he was very good at what he did. I mean, he pretty much defined the afternoon DJ format. Maybe we can blame him for inspiring all the pale imitation wannabes.

[rogerzilla]

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