He may not have been as influential as John Peel, but I was sorry to hear that DJ Alan Freeman (no relation) has died at 79. It was Freeman - and school friend Tony Corden - who introduced me to Yes and, consequently, those wonderful Roger Dean covers that you sometimes felt were the best thing about some prog rock.
Alan "Fluff" Freeman had a distinctive presenting style later lampooned by Harry Enfield, and both his Radio 1 Rock Show and Mary Nightingale's Sunday afternoon show on the same station hold great memories.
In Review: You Get What You Want, an anthology by David Robertson (et al)
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You Get What You Get, the latest title from Fred Egg Comics, the latest
anthology of short comic strips, all written by David Robertson, drawn by a
wide va...
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