Mike Read

Mm.

Which, um, was presented by Mike Read.

So they kept basically the same format.

Mm-hmm.

He was, like, like, the new star sort of thing.

And you had Mike Read, who was married to Sarah Green at the time as well.

He was doing, like, the telephone calls.

Mm.

I tell you what I did see.

I did see on, um, on social media the other day, it must have been Facebook, um, uh, a clip of an episode of Pop Quiz with Mike Read.

You might-

Yeah

I thought he was dead.

And former Radio 1 DJ and Saturday Superstore, um, DJ, uh, uh, Mike Read.

Mike Read.

Saturday Superstore sort of presenter, Mike Read.

Hmm.

And I was like, "Oh, I used to love Mike Read when I was growing up."

Hmm.

And I said-

Yeah.

I think Mike Read is gonna be there as well on the night, who I think introduced them at what was supposed to be the last Jam gig in Guildford originally, but it ended up not coming to pass that way.

Eddie Piller is there too, so there's all kinds of people here.

There's an exhibit, uh, on the night, and there's just all kinds of things happening.

But if you were a kid, your Saturday really started at nine in the morning with Saturday Superstore on BBC One.

Mike Read ran it like a big department store with Sarah Green and Vicki Licorish in, uh, the studio, Keith Chegwin out and about, pop stars taking phone calls from kids at home, cartoons, and a puppet called Crow.

The new series had only kicked off, uh, the, uh, the Saturday before.

Oh, Superstore was my Saturday morning, Lee.

... as well from the day's TV schedule on BBC One.

[laughs] So nine o'clock, Saturday Superstore with Mike Reid, Keith Chegwin, Sarah Greene, and David Icke.

[laughs] Whoa, okay.

Before he went wobbly, I imagine.

But before that, the episode did have two genuinely brilliant stories.

Uh, ambushing Radio 1 DJs in person, cornering Mike Read in the, at 6:00 in the morning.

Yeah, to hand deliver an EP with basically no distribution, and it gets national airplay anyway.

[laughs] Incredible, hey?

So let's hear what Mick said.

My friend Pete Hawkins, who was now managing loads of different bands, but Pete was part of that whole Albion scene, you know? Dai Davis and all those characters.

Pete plugged us, plugged this single, man- and then decided to manage us because along with him plugging it, we went down to London and cornered, I think it was Mike Read in the morning at 6:00 before he did his radio show.

You could do that then, you know?

Okay.

It was banned by Radio 1, by Mike Read.

What?

[laughs] Well, we'll get to that.

So shocking, in fact-

Yeah

... uh, that Mike Read-

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