• Sounds of the 60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. It was first...
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  • Sounds of the 70s is the name of a BBC radio programme, currently broadcast on Sundays on BBC Radio 2, with the Sounds of the Seventies name also having...
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  • Brian Matthew (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    for the BBC for 63 years from 1954 until 2017. He was the host of Saturday Club, among other programmes, and began presenting Sounds of the 60s in March...
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    Tony Blackburn (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Blackburn now presents Sounds of the 60s on Radio 2, having taken over on 4 March 2017 from Brian Matthew, who hosted it for 27 years. The show is now broadcast...
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    (30 March 2007). "Sounds of the 60s - with The Hollies". The Bolton News. Retrieved 1 April 2019. Eder, Bruce. "Staying Power - The Hollies: Songs, Reviews...
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  • changes the format of Sounds of the 60s. The show is no longer hosted by a single presenter and instead a different artist from the era presents the programme...
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    The Dead 60s were an English ska punk band from Liverpool. The band's sound is a mixture of punk rock, ska, dub and reggae. They have taken influences...
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    Tim Rice (category Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club)
    for the BBC Radio 2 show Sounds of the '60s, standing in for regular presenter Brian Matthew who was unwell. Beginning in the lockdown due to the COVID-19...
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  • Walker also deputised for Brian Matthew on Sounds of the 60s when Matthew was unwell. Walker presented the show from 2 September to 25 November 2006,...
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  • Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 Sounds of the 60s – Tony Blackburn's weekly BBC Radio 2 programme "Absolute Radio readies '60s and '70s stations". Digital...
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    Joe Cocker (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    (2010). Sounds of the 60s. Don Hale. pp. 33–. ISBN 978-1-907163-22-7. theguardian.com; "Joe Cocker, Grammy Award-winning singer dies at age of 70". Retrieved...
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  • Simon Dee (category Deaths from bone cancer in the United Kingdom)
    became a guest presenter on the station's Sounds of the 60s programme on a Saturday morning. He then began hosting the show on a temporary basis between April...
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  • which fuses the tones of multiple organic instruments to create an entirely new sound. Wilson maniacally synthesized sounds on Pet Sounds before such...
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    while in December 2006, he was one of three guest hosts of Sounds of the '60s on BBC Radio 2 during the absence of host Brian Matthew, having already...
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  • Keith Fordyce (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    was the first presenter of BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 60s series from 1983 to 1986. Fordyce was born on 15 October 1928 in the St. Giles district of Lincoln...
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    presented the Saturday morning breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 between 8 am and 10 am, taking over the slot from Brian Matthew and Sounds of the 60s, which...
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    Jimmy Savile (category Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great)
    Freemen of the Borough list". Yorkshire Evening Post. Leeds. 5 November 2012. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. "Sounds of the 60s". soundsofthe60s...
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    Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2008-08-15. "The Big Bond Sounds Of the '60s". www.thediskcoordinator.com. Archived from the original on...
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  • not every day you're asked to record several versions of an iconic song. The sounds of the '60s was what first made me fall in love with music so I was...
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  • earned the nickname "The Collector" from working on Sounds of the 60s with Brian Matthew. He produced Pick of the Pops for BBC Radio 1 in the late 1980s...
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  • London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 173. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. "Sounds of the 60s". BBC. 8 June 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2013. "Elton John tours Scotland...
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  • Retrieved 10 November 2017. "The Solid Gold Rock n Roll Show 2019 Our Shows". Flyingmusic.com. Retrieved 15 June 2019. "Sounds of the 60s – Joe Meek – BBC Radio...
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    Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution See Rock File 4 (ed Charlie Gillett & Simon Frith, 1976) Sounds of the 60s, BBC Radio 2, July 28, 2007...
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  • single on the Capitol label. July 1964 saw the next Matthews' Capitol album recorded, Sounds of the '60s, but it was not issued until spring 1966. The album...
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    Dudley Moore (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Who's Who of British Jazz, London: Continuum, p.240 ISBN 9780826472342 "Sounds Of The 60s". bbc.co.uk. 8 June 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2016. "The Big Cover-Up"...
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    Radio 2 – Sounds of the 60s with Tony Blackburn – John Leyton". BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2019. Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular...
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    March 2019. "BBC Radio 2 - Sounds Of The 60s with Tony Blackburn - The Swinging Blue Jeans". BBC. Retrieved 15 March 2019. "The Swinging Blue Jeans". Wn...
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    June 2018. "The Sounds of the '60s: How Dick Dale, the Doors, and Dylan Swayed to Arab Music". Alternet. 3 December 2008. Archived from the original on...
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  • 2024 in British radio (category 2024 in the United Kingdom)
    Caroline) 31 August – Phil Swern, 76, English radio producer (Sounds of the 60s, Pick of the Pops) 12 September – Carl Kingston, broadcaster (Radio Aire...
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  • 31 August – Phil Swern, 76, English radio producer (Sounds of the 60s, Pick of the Pops). 1 September – Brian Trueman, 92, English television presenter...
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