First time I heard that,
it was Alan 'Fluff' Freeman playing it on the Radio 1 rock show. After it finished, he said "rather good, that" and immediately played it again.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2020, 9:59, Reply)
Not wishing to be That Guy, but here goes
wasn't it Tommy "Thomas The" Vance who did the Rock Show?
It wasn't his real name, his first job as a local radio DJ was in Canada replacing a DJ called Tommy Vance and the boss said we can't afford to re-record the jingles, so Tommy the trouper said Let's Rock!
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Sat 5 Sep 2020, 13:03,
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My memory is that it was when Fluff was doing the show,
and I remember it being quite an unexpected endorsement. Memories are fallible though, so I could be mistaken. I'm still pretty sure it was Fluff and not Vance though.
(, Sat 5 Sep 2020, 18:44, Reply)
Wikipedia's page on Fluff suggests I'm not going mad:
"[Freeman] returned to the BBC and Radio 1 in January 1989 to revive The Rock Show and Pick of the Pops. This run of Pick of the Pops ended on 27 December 1992 but he continued to host The Rock Show until 23 October 1993"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Freeman
(, Sat 5 Sep 2020, 18:56, Reply)
Ah well, I have learned something thanks.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Sun 6 Sep 2020, 10:02,
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Just imagine 'Fluff' Freeman playing that track twice in a row,
purely because he liked it. Self-indulgent DJ wankery, sure, but it shows that he was still into harder-edged stuff even when he was your cuddly old radio grandad.
(, Sun 6 Sep 2020, 18:45, Reply)