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Jimmy Young Dies
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Sad to see a broadcasting legend pass away.
He was notable for the time when a number of the great and good were asked to comment on an interview with Margaret Thatcher, and many did, even though she had not appeared on the day in question!
My uncle worked in BBC Radio and said that Sir Jimmy lived on his nerves, perpetually terrified of being replaced, and of course, he eventually was, leaving with what some would say was bad grace in his final comments on air. Sir Jimmy rudely refused to acknowledge his replacement Jeremy Vine at any time he was in the building, until he left the BBC altogether.
My memory of his radio show was how, towards the end of it, he slid into a pattern of speech unheard of in any other human being speaking any language, his whoops and drops and coded language becoming increasingly barmy as time went on.
That particular mantle was passed on to Terry Wogan who extended it further still as he entered his last years, and how it seems to have passed to Lisa Tarbuck who is also inventing vocal pyrotechnics unheard of outside the dressing room of an actor warming up to play King Lear.
But still, not a time to carp, he was loved and will be missed by millions.
R.I.P. Sir Jimmy.
He was notable for the time when a number of the great and good were asked to comment on an interview with Margaret Thatcher, and many did, even though she had not appeared on the day in question!
My uncle worked in BBC Radio and said that Sir Jimmy lived on his nerves, perpetually terrified of being replaced, and of course, he eventually was, leaving with what some would say was bad grace in his final comments on air. Sir Jimmy rudely refused to acknowledge his replacement Jeremy Vine at any time he was in the building, until he left the BBC altogether.
My memory of his radio show was how, towards the end of it, he slid into a pattern of speech unheard of in any other human being speaking any language, his whoops and drops and coded language becoming increasingly barmy as time went on.
That particular mantle was passed on to Terry Wogan who extended it further still as he entered his last years, and how it seems to have passed to Lisa Tarbuck who is also inventing vocal pyrotechnics unheard of outside the dressing room of an actor warming up to play King Lear.
But still, not a time to carp, he was loved and will be missed by millions.
R.I.P. Sir Jimmy.
I'M not one for commenting on deaths, adding RIP and all that nonsense, but for JY I will make an exception.
I met the love of my life (no, not Mrs sqad) at a a dance at the Peterborough Town Hall and i was smitten immediately. I asked her to dance and it was to "Too Young" as posted above. She was tall, a lovely body and that touch of "haughtiness" that i like in women.
Yes, those memories supplied by Jimmy Young remain with me.
I met the love of my life (no, not Mrs sqad) at a a dance at the Peterborough Town Hall and i was smitten immediately. I asked her to dance and it was to "Too Young" as posted above. She was tall, a lovely body and that touch of "haughtiness" that i like in women.
Yes, those memories supplied by Jimmy Young remain with me.
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