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Annie Nightingale, Pioneering BBC Radio DJ, Dies at 83
Pioneering BBC DJ Annie Nightingale — whose embrace of multiple music genres over 50 years cast a vast influence on the U.K.'s music fans — has died.
Nightingale joined the station in 1970 and was revered for her enthusiastic support for multiple genres of music for the next half century, spanning progressive rock, punk, acid house, grime and more. Breaking down doors by refusing to bow down to sexual prejudice and male fear gave encouragement to generations of young women who, like Annie, only wanted to tell you about an amazing tune they had just heard. “Watching Annie do this on television in the 1970s, most famously as a presenter on the BBC music show The Old Grey Whistle Test, or hearing her play the latest breakbeat techno on Radio One is testimony to someone who never stopped believing in the magic of rock ‘n’ roll.”
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