The Disc Jockeys (1969)
Tonight: The Disc Jockeys Radio 1 is wonderful. Or so the jingles say. And the stars of this two-year-old, all pop, wonderland, are the Disc Jockeys - more than a score of them. Theirs is one of the most exclusive and competitive jobs in the country - at any rate in the field of tinsel. Their counterparts in the United States are sometimes super-stars, idols themselves, on a par with the Rolling Stones or the Beatles, whose discs they plug. But what of our home-grown variety? Are they super-stars or giant dwarfs? Merely spinners of discs churning out candy-floss rubbish? Or influential leaders broadcasting to millions of youngsters at their most impressionable age? What is their role in the vast big-beat music industry? Man Alive talked to, and followed, five Disc Jockeys: Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett, John Peel, Rosko, Jimmy Young - watched them at work; at play; examining their influence and their position in the pop world. (BBC)
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Emperor Rosko as Self |
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Kenny Everett as Self |
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Jeanne le Chard as Self - Voiceover |
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Tony Blackburn as Self |
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Dave Most as Self |
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John Peel as Self |
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Douglas Muggeridge as Self |
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Jimmy Young as Self |
| Production | Ginny Sykes | Researcher |
| Camera | Jim Pierson | Camera Operator |
| Lighting | Alan Muhley | Electrician |
| Camera | Alan Hewison | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Martin Bell | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Maurice Everett | Sound |
| Sound | Ron Edmonds | Sound |
| Sound | Keith Beale | Sound |
| Editing | Graham Shipman | Editor |
| Production | Richard Thomas | Producer |