A seriously influential DJ, sad to see him go.

For me he will always be associated with Pink Floyd and Wish You Were Here. Partly because when it came out he played it, side one & side two back to back on Radio One. In the days when the Radio One Play List was all naff singles and DJ’s talked over & faded in / out the 3 minutes they lasted to play a solid 45 mins of an album was amazing.

Also he “features” on the album. The title track starts with someone tuning around on a radio then playing along with what they hear. As they tune about we hear a snippet of one of Fluff’s famous classical jingles. Of course they could have just tuned through Radio 3 but for those of us who listened to The Rock Show on a Saturday Afternoon the reference was obvious. For some of us it was the only show we listened to. Peely was a bit weird (and on crap reception AM) and everything else was chart singles.

More Rush, more Zep, more Purple Fluff - not ‘arf