Monday, March 7, 2005

Tommy Vance RIP

Tommy Vance died of a stroke this weekend. When I was teenager, there were four DJs worth listening to on the radio. John Peel died last year, now this. I've no idea if Alan Freeman, or Clyde's Tom Russell are still around. I hope so. God I feel old.

Peel played the sort of music you thought you ought to listen to, in case you heard something you liked. Vance played rock, the genre that dominated my teenage years, and to a lesser extent still does. He played music with enthusiasm, and in a way that would be impossible in these "DJ presses the button to play the next track chosen by the station manager" days. I once heard him play the (at the time) new single by Fish, Credo. Afterwards Vance said "That was a great song. A really great song. That's such a good song, I think I'll play it again." So he did. A great man, sorely missed.

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