Annie Nightingale makes her final link on BBC Radio 1 wishing listeners a 'brilliant Christmas' and sending her love.
Friends and family members remembered Annie Nightingale at a memorial in London on Thursday afternoon, four months after the pioneering DJ passed away.
The Who front-man Sir Roger Daltrey also attended with his wife Heather, while former BBC DJ Nick Grimshaw, designer Pam Hogg and legendary dance music DJ Pete Tong also paid their respects. The broadcaster joined Radio 1 in 1970 as its first ever female DJ and went on to become its longest-serving host. Known for promoting new and underground music, she was also praised for supporting other women in a male-dominated industry.
Her role saw her interview a dizzying cast of celebrities, including Sean Connery for his first role in James Bond. It would be one of the many highpoints of a career that began as a general reporter on her local paper, the Brighton and Hove Gazette. TV and radio presenter Lauren Laverne also took to the podium to share her recollections of the late DJ on Thursday afternoon
'Watching Annie do this on television in the 1970s, most famously as a presenter on the BBC music show The Old Grey Whistle Test or hearing her play the latest breakbeat techno on Radio One is testimony to someone who never stopped believing in the magic of rock 'n' roll.' In 2021, BBC Radio 1 launched a new scholarship for female and non-binary dance music DJs which was named after Nightingale.In 2019, she was made a CBE for services to radio having previously been made an MBE in 2002.
'As well as being a trailblazer for new music, she was a champion for female broadcasters, supporting and encouraging other women to enter the industry.The late broadcaster posing with Paul McCartney, who once called her live on air after John Lennon's death 'I was in awe of her knowledge and passion for music, the way she talked about it and the stories she had! Such a kind soul and will be missed. Thank you Annie R.I.P.'
The DJ said she faced a 'huge lot of opposition' going into radio in an interview for the BBC Centenary Collection in 2018.Once, on the BBC Radio 4 programme, Desert Island Discs, she told host Lauren Laverne that radio had 'such an effect' on her, the first word she tried to say was 'music'.
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