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Radio obsessive whose idea of a break was a weekend in a New York hotel room tuning in to American stations: Zany genius DJ Steve Wright lived for his listeners - but never recovered from being axed by Radio 2
The sad news yesterday that Wright has died, aged 69, has in some ways a bitter inevitability. And to say he 'devoted his life' is no overstatement.
Wright was such a radio obsessive that his idea of a holiday was to spend a long weekend in a New York hotel room, tuning in to American stations and making notes on everything he heard. Impressionist Phil Cornwell would supply exaggerated impersonations of David Bowie and Mick Jagger, spoofing the idea that superstars would turn up at the studios to hear their records being played. As he choked up, he spun his final discs — Bad Blood by Taylor Swift, perhaps a hint at how he felt he’d been betrayed by the BBC, then Queen’s Radio Gaga... a love song to the medium that was his life.
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