Johnnie Walker
@piratejw
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Sixties pirate on Radio Caroline. Friday Rock Show & Sunday Sounds of 70’s Show on BBC Radio 2. Joint Patron of Carers UK
Joined February 2009
Farewell Ken, so many years, so many great radio shows. Brilliant choice of final record The Beatles The End. You’re a top gent and no mistake - keep playing those greatest hits you love. All the very best.
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It’s showtime! And i have a guest….@TiggyWalker @lizziebarn @Dr_Paul_Thomas @BBCRadio2 #SOT70s #fondfarewell
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Quick sherbert with @RealKenBruce round the corner from his old home. He looks a very happy man, good luck at GH Ken. Have fun & take care. Not sure about the fist - anyway, he missed 😀
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It’s the end of an era as the most enthusiastic, dedicated & hard working radio personality brings ‘The Big Show’ to and end. Take a bow Steve and thank you for an amazing run of great shows. Wishing you all good things for the future.
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Devastated, so shocked and sad. One of the most hard working, entertaining and talented jocks. Arrived at 9am for a 2pm show. He put his heart and soul into The Big Show. We were good buddies. He was generous, funny, warm, loyal. One of the all time great broadcasters. Love you♥️.
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Very shocked to hear about Janice Long passing. I worked with her many times. She was great fun, lovely sense of humour, an irrepressible spirit with such a love for life and especially music. A great radio dj. God bless you Janice, we’ll miss you.
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It’s my last #SOTS until February. I’m expecting record ratings as there’s nothing on the tele and it’s raining. Pull a cork or screw off a cap, light the fire and let’s get a festive mood going with some unusual Christmas records. 3pm @BBCRadio2
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Today is my last show coming from Wogan House. From Drive Time to SOT70’s, I’ve done hundreds of shows in studios 6A and 6C. Join me from 3-5pm. We’re going to have a New Year’s Eve rave! Here’s to lots more shows in 2024. #SOT70s @BBCRadio2
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Get well soon @tonyblackburn, still recovering from his chest infection which means another early start for me 🤪 @BBCRadio2
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All set for another edition of sounds of the 70’s - great records in the system and a chat with Richard Hawley 3 till 5 @BBCRadio2
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First ever dj job 1965 @ Locarno Bathroom, Birmingham. 57 years later doing my last live dj show in the Palace of Versailles. Way to go 😎
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So lovely to see Sally again, it’s been a long time.
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Getting my caffeine shot in! Join me at 6am for #SOT60’s… sitting in for Tony. @BBCRadio2
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Farewell Steve Harley, we shall miss you very much. Thank you for the music and your great friendship. SOTS70 not live today, our tribute next Sunday.
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How many guitarists in the world ?? yet Peter Green was the only one with that haunting, ethereal sound. Too late to pay tribute in tomorrow’s Sounds of the 70’s but we will on Sunday 2nd August. R.I.P. Peter.
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So very shocked at the news. Christine was so special and made such a huge contribution to Fleetwood Mac but she was very modest and humble. Lovely, lovely woman.
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I’ve asked the Government to send out an alarm just before the start of my show to make sure you don’t miss it. 🤪 A great mix of #70’s music 3 - 5pm @BBCRadio2 😎.
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Farewell to Radio Caroline founder Ronan O’Rahilly, The man who made the impossible possible and changed radio forever. Thanks Ronan for the incredible experience of being a Caroline deejay and to challenge the Government in 1967. You were an amazing man.
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Good morning. Its time for some 60’s tunes. Heres where they’ll be coming from. Join me very soon. #SOT60s @BBCRadio2
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So shocked & saddened to hear of the death of Rick Parfitt. Such a great character, he was a true rocker in every sense. We'll miss you Rick.
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Farewell to Duane Eddy, a great man who created a unique guitar sound. We final met years after I played ‘Because They’re Young’ as my theme tune hundreds of times. Very gracious , warm and kind.
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Grieving from afar. I’m sorry I won’t be with you today. @WhisperingBob expertly guiding the 70’s ship this week. @BBCRadio2 I’ll be back next Sunday. Much love and Long Live The King 👑.
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Happy Anniversary to all pirate radio fans and dj’s. Great memories of the best ever radio & brilliant music.
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To those separated by Covid, may your hug be not too far away .
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Tiggy and I send love and best wishes for a gentle & peaceful Christmas to all unpaid carers. Always a tough role and this year even more so. Heres to a better year ahead. @TiggyWalker @CarersUK.
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Farewell Glen Campbell, thank you for all that wonderful music. You will not be forgotten.
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My guest this afternoon is Allan Clark who has news of singing together with his old Hollies bandmate @TheGrahamNash. Hear great Hollies tracks like Long Cool Woman & The Air That I Breathe plus 70’s classics 3 - 5 pm @BBCRadio2
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Join me today at 3pm for SOT70’s on @BBCRadio2. I’ll pay tribute to our dear Darcey who we lost this week. We’ve so many funny memories including the day she leapt on Sally’s lap to help with the traffic news! Many thanks for all the good wishes. @TiggyWalker
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So pleased to have @CaptainSensible joining me on #SOT70s - great Damned tracks plus his pick the Pink Fairies. All that and more 3 till 5pm @BBCRadio2
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From the iconic bass intro to ‘Walk On The Wild Side,’ Herbie added his skill and magic to so many hit records. I travelled with him compering a Blue Mink tour. Such a good man, everyone loved him. He will get such a great welcome in the Spirit World.
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This day in 1976 I announced I was leaving Radio 1 because of a lack of musical freedom. Happy to say that’s not a problem today - as long as on Sundays I stick to the 70’s. Join me (plus guest 10CC’s @GrahamGouldman) at 3pm for a musically varied #SOT70s @BBCRadio2.
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Its Bank Holiday Monday. I think it’s time to do a show on @BoomRadioUK. 4-6pm today. With the Stardust @TiggyWalker #mrandmrs
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My hero @IanHunterdotcom with me this afternoon with 70’s Mott/Ian classics and news of a new IH album with star guests 3-5 @BBCRadio2
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Lean On Me such a great song. Thank you Bill Withers for that and all the other gems you recorded. Rest easy soul brother.
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All set for Sounds off the 70’s live from London, some great tracks loaded & ready to go plus 60 years of the Rolling Stones with author @LAJwriter - Be Good To Yourself and whack up the volume 😀
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Farewell radio legend #brianmatthew @BBCRadio2 Thank you for all the years of music & radio. Wishing you good health and all the very best.
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Me with son Sam and Tiggy Stardust in the late 70’s. Don’t miss a very special #SOT70s today @ 3pm on @BBCRadio2 when I’ll be discussing my own 1970’s with Ms Stardust taking the lead & asking the questions, & playing my favourite tracks. It’s going to be different! @TiggyWalker
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Ed Stewart sounded fantastic on @BBCRadio2 at Christmas. What a great last show and one that will always be remembered.You left in style Ed.
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@piersmorgan Give the guy a break, when you’ve written such a huge catalogue of songs what’s wrong with a backup just in case.
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There’s the best of the 70’s and a chat with Andy Fairweather Low. Be wide eyed, maybe not legless 🤪 from 3-5pm @BBCRadio2
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No-one played the drums like Charlie Watts, he was special and we won’t see his like again A total gent and the best dressed guy in rock n roll. It’s very sad news, condolences to family and friends & especially the rest of The Stones.
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#SOT70s - no guest today. Just me and a bunch of records. I’ll chuck ‘em all up in the air and see what lands. See you at 3pm. @BBCRadio2.
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My guest today Tony King has a myriad of fabulous stories following an extraordinary career working for Elton, The Stones & The Beatles. A legend in his own right, his book The Taste Maker has just been released. Join me 3-5pm to hear my chat with him. #SOT70s @BBCRadio2
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I’m limbering up for #SOT70’s at 3pm today on @BBCRadio2 - with my sourdough. @bbcpaddy manages this on a bike. I don’t have one. Otherwise… @CrowleyOnAir the great DJ is my guest. See you later. @lizziebarn
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It will be great doing a show with Miss Stardust again. Happy Christmas to all Boom listeners.
That may have been @piratejw final #SOT70s till Feb but you can hear us TOGETHER (!) on @BoomRadioUK on Tues 27th December 4-6pm. Yes - Tiggy Stardust is being allowed BACK behind the mic. So excited. I hope you’ll join us. We’ve been choosing some great tracks 😀
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I’ll be pre recording #Soundsofthe70’s at home on @BBCRadio2 for a while. I’d love you to keep in touch - please send emails for dedications and requests to walker@bbc.co.uk.
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So many tears, such a shock. What an amazing man, what an incredible life. Maybe he really did come from Mars, he enabled people to be free.
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It’s the big day on #SOT70’s as listener Ann Knight from Cornwall picks record #500 into Johnnie’s Jukebox. I’ll play great entries from the 500 and revisit @peterframpton. Dave Edmunds & Suzi Quatro from the archives. It’s going be good. Today 3-5pm @BBCRadio2
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Guest Pauline Black, top 70’s hits plus archive with Bob Marley & Mott The Hoople along with new Jukebox record and BTO. All on #SOTS @BBCRadio2 3-5 today & @BBCSounds
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@tonyblackburn @GMB @BBCRadio2 @djgarydavies @theJeremyVine Tony, huge congratulations on 60 years on the radio, have a great day on the wireless.
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Join me today with the legendary Otis Williams of @thetemptations the group he founded & kept going for over 60 yrs. Their story is being told in the musical @AintTooProud . Hear our chat today on #SOT70s 3pm @BBCRadio2
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On #SOT70s today from 3-5pm @BBCRadio2 I’ll be paying a tribute to the wonderfully gifted singer and songwriter Christine Mcvie re-playing the interview I did with her last year. (My scheduled guest - Brian Johnson will be on next Sunday’s show). @fleetwoodmac
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@WhisperingBob @simonmayo Simon, you've done such a great job on Drivetime, we'll miss you. Here's wishing you all the very best for future success in all you do. Johnnie.
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Some great songs from Roxy Music, John Lennon & Gerry Rafferty plus a tribute to Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington & a chat with ‘one of the best kept secrets in British music’ Geraint Watkins. It’s the soundtrack to a perfect Sunday afternoon #SOT70s @BBCRadio2
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Rubbish.
Can we all just stop shaking hands anyway? It's a practice that started centuries ago to ensure men didn't reach for their swords — it's a really shite custom regardless of #coronavirus and we should retire it permanently now we've got the excuse.
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This time last year during lockdown Tiggy Stardust took up tennis and has done brilliantly. This afternoon is her first League Match - wish her loads of luck 🤞🤞🤞😉
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Great positive attitude Mark - you WILL be back. Wishing you all the best and I can recommend @maggiescentre look for one near you. Great places to meet and hang out with folks going through a similar challenge. Take it easy buddy.
All being well I’ll be back in action in the new year – or sooner if I feel well enough – but I will be back – you can depend on it – I just can’t say exactly when that will be. So You won’t hear from me for a while now and therefore…well…. Merry Christmas I guess. Life eh?.
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We loved doing a show again on @BoomRadioUK Thanks to Producer Quentin Howard @quentindab Happy New. Year to all listeners. Johnnie & Tiggy Stardust @TiggyWalker.
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It’s a longer #SOT70s today. Going for a Coronation vibe for the final hr. My guest is actress Dame Penelope Wilton talking about her latest film #haroldfry. Swear I got posher as I spoke to her. If you’re not too busy eating quiche with your neighbours join me 3-6pm. @BBCRadio2.
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Thank you for all the emails to #soundsofthe70’s As we have no guests there’s lots more time for your choices, keep sending emails any day to walker@bbc.co.uk 🙏
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Just the most wonderful Christmas present to radio fans: The Lady’ is back broadcasting on medium wave just like the old days. Many congrats to all who made it possible.
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Andy Scott is my guest on SOTS this afternoon plus archive with Donna Summer & Boomtown Rats, new Jukebox record and Better Than Original - a great rocker. All @BBCRadio2 2 - 5pm
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3pm Sunday @BBCRadio2 guest Mick Fleetwood talks about the early days and the huge contribution made by Peter Green, who will be celebrated at a special concert this Tuesday @LondonPalladium
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Farewell and R.I.P. to my lifelong friend and ‘Defy The Government’ buddy the Admiral Robbie Dale. We shared so many wonderful adventures together and on 14th August 1967 were the only 2 dj’s left to keep Radio Caroline on the air. Good Bless you Robbie.
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Who would have thought it ! A love-in with a Bay City Roller !! Guest @LesMcKeownUK Today 3-5pm Sounds of the 70's @BBCRadio2
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Dearest Gordy, such a warm and lovely man with a unique and marvelous sense of humour. Thank you for all your music and for leading me to meet Tiggy. Enjoy your freedom and hanging out with all your music friends in your new world 🙏 🎸.
Our dear friend Gordon Haskell has left us. Bless you Gordy for the music, for collecting me from Heathrow dressed as a cow, for playing at our wedding,, for your sense of humour & above all for introducing me to @piratejw. You changed the course of my life forever. ❤️🙏
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With Brian May today @BBCRadio2 Listen @BBCSounds #soundsofthe70's #brianmay #BohemianRhapsodyMovie
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At 3pm @BBCRadio2 get the oven on, pull a cork, plug the iron in, potter in your shed or get into your car, volume up. Great 70’s classic rock & pop plus hear what happened when Rick Wakeman went out to dinner with Keith Moon. 🤪
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Farewell Dave Cash. A very moving moment as pirate fans and wife Sarah say goodbye to a great deejay.
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We’d like to wish all carers a happy and peaceful Christmas. Well done for all you do so selflessly each day. @CarersUK @TiggyWalker @Helen_M_Walker.
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So saddened to hear of the death of Les just as he was getting ready to tour again. We got on really well whenever we met, he was a really lovely man.
We're just prepping the latest Sounds Of The 70s with @piratejw for this Sunday at 3 on @BBCRadio2 @BBCSounds . There'll be tributes to both Jim Steinman and BCR's Les McKeown in there, including Johnnie's lovely chat with Les from 2018.
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Closing Time for Leonard Cohen. The most gracious, humble and polite person I've ever met. An absolute gentleman
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John Lennon At 80 @BBCSounds What a wonderful listen. Sean Ono Lennon a very good and sensitive interviewer. Brilliant prediction and editing by @lizziebarn Best quotes at the top of the show draw you into the programme. Elton was great on John. Part 2 tonight @BBCRadio2 at 7pm.
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Loving @springsteen new album. Classic soul songs Turn Back The Hands Of Time, What Becomes of The Broken Hearted etc Everyone’s a winner, brilliant idea to do soul covers. Great musicians and backing singers. I play vid of Do I Love You 1st thing in morning, great day follows.
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2 hours of the cream of 70’s music ahead, plus a lovely surprise & and a great interview with drummer & founder member of Free & Bad Co #SimonKirke 3pm @BBCRadio2.
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SOT70's for some great seventies music and hear my chat with guest @Johnfog60491606 of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame. We're down on the corner from 3-5pm
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The ultra cool New York singer/songwriter @willienile is my live guest on #SOT70’s’ today along with our playlist of the decade’s best music. 3-5 @BBCRadio2
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Lovely article in the Sunday Express on Tiggy and I sharing radio together. Thank you Fergus Kelly.
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Fireworks over the Palace of Versailles & Paris on a beautiful Saturday morning.
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Yes he does - I love doing the show with Tiggy and hope we can continue. 😄.
@warrendavidhot1 @piratejw @TiggyWalker @BBCRadio2 Johnny may not want to keep doing the show with Tiggy, have you asked him?.
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It was a lovely lunch, blue skies, sunshine and the sea. So good to be with other human beings again 😎.
What a fabulous way to re-enter life again. Lunch @The_Pig_Hotel. Asparagus and purple sprouting from their garden, freshly caught brill, crisp Chablis, delightful service, a view across Studland Bay - and sun. What could be more perfect. @piratejw @RobinHutson #PigonTheBeach
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Happy crowd ending first Sounds of 70’s Show at Playhouse Weston Super Mare. Thanks for being a great audience. J
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I know that being a carer doesn’t stop just because it’s Christmas Day, but hoping that all Carers are feeling especially loved and cherished today. Happy Christmas. Johnnie & Tiggy @CarersUK @TiggyWalker.
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The courage, bravery and compassion of the people of Manchester illuminates the world. It is that power of love that will defeat terrorism.
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9.15 @greenberrycafe Primrose reward for getting up at 4am to do Sounds of the 6o's @BBCRadio2
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Spiders From Mars drummer Woody Woodmansey talks about that fateful night 50 years ago when Ziggy Stardust announced no more live shows. Woody (pictured on his wedding day with bride June) is my guest on SOTS today 3-5pm @BBCRadio2
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I’d love to have you join me for Sounds of the 70 today at 3pm @BBCRadio2 Lots of John Lennon and clips from Elton (from last night's John Lennon At 80)on the legendary Madison Square Garden concert and loads of your requests. It's a listen 😊🎸🎹🎵🎷😎.
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Home of Radio 2 renamed Wogan House, lovely tribute to a great man.
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