BBC Radio One - Our Tune

[melvinceltic]

i thought he dropped anchor in poo bay?

[whitbyjet65]

I like toad turds.

[robmancs1]

Kenny Everett was a so funny and years ahead of his time.

[xxkil]

frankie howard hatted being gay it,s so sad in my eyes you are what you are so don,t fight it i like women you may like men so whocares as long as your happy

[xxkil]

frankie howed hatted being gay it,s so sad in my eyes you are what you are so don,t fight it i like women you may like men so whocares as long as your happy

[blobby1972]

3:24 that dress reminds me of an old girlfriend .....come to think of it so does the beared :)

[smithylvs]

i was really young when this was on ,my mum used to shout at me to be quiet and i remember this tune,, touching stories and yeah i love radio 2

[krakenwave]

One day, he could take no more. He left. Abandoned her raddled, dimpled flesh and felt-tip charts of quincunx rising for a hardcore arsefucking gay lifestyle.

Lee was heartbroken. She didn't miss the whinging, insecure, snivelling little fuckface but as a meal-ticket he'd left her bereft. Her lifelong dream of writing a book - Holly Johnson In Uranus - for Smash Hits by Xmas 84 - was now over.

And Lee's song for those tragic days? Self-pitying unoriginality from a fat bird. Funny, that.

[krakenwave]

Godda ledda here from a laydee. Id was love at firdst sight - he was an egotistical, self-absorbed, sexually-denying-and-perpetual­ly-misleading-everyone-on 208 DJ who occasionally got on Raydio-Wuuun when standards dropped. A veree speshal man.

But things weren't easy for them. She was a flakey mentalist - a wibbley-wobbley hippy-dippy earth-mother who pretended to celeb astrology. But alas her charts never predicted either the Russell Grants nor Kenny Everetts of this world or of those beyond

[dummyspitter]

this was a great segment everyday around 11 simon would do our tune the bbc should bring this back on television insted of radio with simon telling the storys sat as he was infront of a microphone . radio one is rubbish nowdays back then the djs where great simon bates steve wright DLT garry davis to name but a few

[2Steppa2]

I wish the BBC would release a series of 'Our Tune' stories from the 80's on a CD or download.

[blobby1972]

@2Steppa2 my god that would be great in the early 90's Iwas a lorry driver and everyday at 11 I found somwere to park no matter how busy I was it was our tune time .Ijust loved it .there was somthing about his voice that just made the sad story realy tug at the old hart strings.

[2Steppa2]

@blobby1972 Yep, nobody else could have hosted that segment but Bates, he was tailor made for Our Tune. I think almost the whole country used to stop at 11 to listen. Can't imagine a radio programme having that effect these days........

[cronauer1985]

@2Steppa2 i agree , it would be good to hear them again , i wonder if anybody taped then???

[rallykink]

the best days of radio 1 this, it was on at 10:45 or so sadly now radio one is dead, anyone can get a job there now after all you have to start at the bottem and work your way to a good radio station.

[Banner1979]

At 5:11, that's John Alkin who was DS Tom Daniels in THE SWEENEY.

[edward6000]

hmm :)

[smithylvs]

yeah proper radio, my parents had this on every day when i was young,, radio 1 is crap now

[blobby1972]

@smithylvs naa you just grew up and switched over to radio 2 come on admit it .

[banditdan66]

@blobby1972 steve wrights Big Show rocks!!

[paulbenzie]

Appently Kenny was mates with the Beatles in the early days, used to hang around with Lenon a lot. What a great combo, Kenny E and 'Our Tune', two of yesteryears greats and all done in the best possible taste!!!

[shootingstar126]

Oh, I remember this... how Simon Bates used to make the country cry everyday at the same time..

Never missed it.

[thejonesboymb]

I agree - radio one is crap now full of patronising ' with it ' dick heads.

MTV's gone that way too as well unforntunately.

[abhudson14]

Simon Bates great DJ beter then all the rubbish thats on Radio 1 now

[crockett207]

here here.

[blade0954]

funny man,rip

[thecheesepriest]

Neunie, if Kenny Everett was still alive today, he would make Russell Brand look nailed to the floor.

[robblac]

just cos you were gay for everet, dosent make brand shit, your an arsehole !

[DrJReefer]

@thecheesepriest Now there is a thought...

[Zeviel]

oh wow! this takes me WAY back to when i was little.. my mum would always turn him up so we could listen =) love it!! was always so sad..

[AUTORECOVERYUK]

all i can say is QUALITY. when radio was worth listening to unlike all the boom boom rubbish they churn out now.

[sheilaskelly]

i like simon bates hes better than half the shite on the radio now

[MoleinaHole]

With respect I think he'd been doing something better than a ITV gameshow.

[neunie74]

I miss Kenny Everett so much. I reckon he'd be doing an ITV game show if he were still alive

[bettyboop34]

i think i may weep