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Johnnie Walker's widow reveals how the legendary DJ's hosted a final 'kitchen disco' for family and friends despite being in a wheelchair and on oxygen - as she speaks about her husband's final months for the first time
Tiggy Walker, who was married to the former BBC DJ for 23 years, recounted how her ailing husband 'decided he wanted to do a final kitchen disco despite being in a wheelchair and on oxygen'.
Taking to the airwaves for her first ever solo show to celebrate what would have been his 80th birthday, she said the gathering last August became the last time he DJ'd for a live audience and he signed off with a Bette Midler tearjerker. Just weeks later on New Year's Eve the trailblazing DJ, who started his stellar career on offshore pirate station Radio Caroline, died after losing his battle with lung disease. Speaking as she took to the airwaves to record a special Boom Radio tribute show to be broadcast Sunday at 8pm, she recalled how she 'moved all the furniture, hung up fairy lights, and a bunch of friends came over'.
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