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Description: Disc Jockey, Singer UK
Known For: “Don
Music Styles: Pop
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: 29th January 1943
Location Born: Guildford, United Kingdom
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Tony Blackburn
An English disc jockey, who broadcast on the “pirate” stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!.
He was born Antony Kenneth Blackburn, in Guildford, Surrey, but in 1946 his family moved to Bournemouth, Hampshire, where his sister, Jacqueline, was born.
His mother, Pauline Cubitt (née Stone), was a housewife and his father, Kenneth Fleming Blackburn, was a GP, and he was educated at Castle Court School in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset and Millfield School in Somerset, which he entered on a sports scholarship.
He went on to become captain of the school cricket team, but left before taking any examinations. He then achieved a clutch of O-levels, following private tuition, and enrolled for a HND course in Business Studies at Bournemouth Technical College.
He began his career as a singer, then worked as a DJ for the offshore pirate radio stations Radio Caroline and Radio London, before joining the BBC in 1967, initially broadcasting on the Light Programme.
Tony Blackburn was in a group called Tony Blackburn and the Rovers which performed in the Bounemouth and surrounding areas. He was the first DJ on BBC Radio 1 when it was launched on 30 September 1967, and presented the breakfast show until 1973.
As his singing career failed to take off, despite 14 singles being released, the first being the Pop-Soul styled “Don’t Get Off The Train” on Fontana TF 562 released in April 1965 and two in 1967-68, “So Much Love” and “It’s Only Love” made the UK Top 40 on MGM, he stopped singing and concentrated on radio presenting.
On Saturday 6 November 2010, Blackburn replaced Dale Winton as the regular host of BBC Radio 2’s Pick of the Pops programme.
Blackburn now presents BBC Radio 2’s Pick of the Pops every Saturday from 1-3pm as well as BBC London 94.9 on Sundays from 12-2pm and a weekly Sunday show on Magic 1161.
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