Posts Tagged ‘Paul McCartney’
Mack Nuggets
This is what I got up to on Radio Merseyside from 2016 to 2018, including: The end of the world; What Charlie said; Ricky Tomlinson talks about Mickey Finn; Liverpool’s zoo; Andrew Neil gets taken down; Connections to celebrity; Roger McGough talks about the Blitz; a journey from hell; The real reason why Liverpool fans […]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, AFTRS, BBC, BBC Radio Merseyside, blog, Blues, Broadcasting, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Gerry Marsden, Google, Graham Mack, Hillsborough, Inside look, Inspiration, LFC, Liverpool, Liverpool Football Club, Media, Radio, true story, TV, Uncategorized, Youtube | Leave a Comment
Tags: Andrew Neil, BBC Radio Merseyside, Chuck Berry, Donald Trump, Father's Day, Henry Ford, Keith Chegwin, Liverpool, Mickey Finn, New Zealand, Paul McCartney, Ricky Tomlinson, Roger McGough, The Twist, You'll Never Walk Alone
BOB Job
As we get closer to BOBfm in Hertfordshire closing and becoming another Heart station, I thought you might like to hear my favourite April Fools Day prank we pulled at BOB. The radio station is in the grounds of Knebworth Park, literally yards away from where hundreds of the worlds top artists have played in […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Aril Fools Day, blog, Broadcasting, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Google, Graham Mack, Inside look, Inspiration, London, Media, Radio, true story, Uncategorized, Youtube | Leave a Comment
Tags: April Fools Day, Blog, BOBfm, Bruno Mars, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Eric Clapton, feedback, George Michael, Google, Hertfordshire, Inspiration, Internet, Knebworth, Knebworth Park, Lady Gaga, Led Zeppelin, life, Marshall, Media, Music, Oasis., Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Status Quo, Tom Jones
The Prince Who Met The King
I had a chat with the broadcasting legend Tony Prince. He talked about meeting Elvis in Las Vegas, the truth about Colonel Tom Parker and Tony’s early life and career that took him from spinning discs and introducing the Beatles in a northern ballroom to broadcasting to an international audience of 100 million on Radio […]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, AFTRS, America, Beatles, blog, Books, Broadcasting, Cold War, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, Commercials, DJ, England, Google, Graham Mack, Inside look, Inspiration, London, Media, Music, podcast, Politics, Radio, Radio Wars, Rock, Rock n Roll, Royalty, true story, Uncategorized, World, Youtube | Closed
Tags: Elvis, Graham Mack, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Led Zeppelin, Mike Read, Paul McCartney, Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg, The Beatles, Timmy Mallett, Tony Prince
Box Clever.
Sometimes you have to bend the rules. Today I found an old VHS tape of the first time I sang on live television. It was 1990, I was the lead singer in The Misfits, a New Zealand pub rock band. In the winter, TVNZ used to have a live Telethon. We sent them a demo […]
Filed under: Broadcasting, Music, Rock n Roll, Television | Closed
Tags: 1990, AFTRS, Aircheck, Beatles, BOBfm, Graham Mack, Misfits, NZTV, Paul McCartney, Pub Rock, Rock Band, Telethon, VHS, Whangarei
April Fools Day is coming up. It’s always a fun day to be on the radio. My favourite April Fools Day bit is the fake concert. On a couple of radio stations, I’ve presented shows that I’ve made out are live concerts. It’s pretty easy to do, you just get big crowd sound effects, recordings […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Aril Fools Day, Broadcasting | Closed
Tags: 2CR, AFTRS, Aircheck, April Fools Day, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, The Rolling Stones, The Royal Family
Thank you to everyone involved in BOBisphere 2014. In case you missed it, some of the biggest names in rock and pop played live in the grounds of Knebworth House. It was an exclusive show for BOB. A crowd in excess of a hundred and twenty thousand were entertained by Status Quo, Bruno Mars, Lady […]
Filed under: Beatles, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, London, Media, Music, Radio, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: Bruno Mars, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Eric Clapton, Lady Gaga, Led Zeppelin, Oasis., Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Robbie Williams, Status Quo, Tom Jones
Making History Every Day
History is being made here in Hertfordshire. This county has a rich history. There’s evidence of humans living here from the Stone Age. The first tribes settled in the Iron Age. In AD 54, the Romans besieged the town of Wheathampstead. In 293 the first British martyrdom took place at what we now call St. Albans. In the […]
Filed under: History, Inspiration, Media, Radio, Travel, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: Anglo-Saxons, Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Genesis, Hertfordshire, Iron Age, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Oasis., Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, St. Albans, Stone Age, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Wheathampstead, William the Conqueror
My radio career still hadn’t got off the ground in late 1992. I’d been doing community radio for over a year and sent demo tapes all over Australia but no one would give me a radio job. I knew that unless I got on to the top broadcasting course in the country, I was going […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Australia, Beatles, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Media, New Zealand, Radio, Sydney, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: 2CH, AFTRS, Australia, Gareth McCray, Graham Mack, Mobile phone, Paul McCartney, Sydney, Sydney Entertainment Center
