Alan Freeman

And then after two of those, he rang me up again.

And he said, hey, do you fancy doing a weekly show on a Saturday in the Fluff Freeman slot? Well, I said, yeah, all right then.

So, Stacey, thank you so much for the invite.

100 shows later, hope you're still enjoying it.

You know, before there was even guitar in a fucking band, like, song that led the band, it was these guys doing, like, a doo-wop kind of thing.

And that's what Alan Freeman first jumped on, you know?

Yeah.

Well, you can't just...

Yeah, I think I agree.

I mean, Dick Clark was like an institution, but also Dick Clark had a career that lasted, shit, 50 years after the payola thing.

Because he had something that Alan Freeman didn't have.

Right.

I was reminded of this one last week because our chart actually happened to be round about the same time as this particular chart, because some of the songs were the same in the chart.

But this is a recording of Alan Freeman, the great Fluff Freeman, doing the new Top 20 Countdown live on Radio 1 on the Sunday evening on Pick of the Pops.

And...

Yes, that's what was going out live on air.

Uh, last week's obituaries of Man About the House actor Richard O'Sullivan all mentioned that, and I did notice this, Glyn, that, uh, all mentioned that since 2003 he'd been a resident of Brinsworth House, the Royal Variety Club's retirement home for aging lovies in Richmond upon Thames.

Other residents over the years have included Thora Hird, Mike Yarwood, Hilda Baker, and Alan 'Fluff' Freeman.

Now, there's a fly on the wall docuseries I'd pay good money [laughs] to watch.

100%.

And it was a breaking news.

And it was Alan Fluff Freeman.

Breaking news, breaking news.

And the reporter said, we've heard a report that Brian Epstein has been shot.

Part of the problem in all of this is what's called the naming problem.

I don't know if you got into the discussion when you talked with Alan Freeman, but for example, again, back to my Cassie's calculator, I could label it unique, something that I, whatever I want, right? And then I could give, so it could be an internal project name right we we did this all of us from geeks you know we had ncc1701 and all these separate project codes and this and that

yeah

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