Career
A former breakfast host on Auckland"s Radio Hauraki, he was once the highest-paid private radio DJ in New Zealand. Black left Saint Patrick"s College, Wellington at the age of 15, and was a seaman with the British Merchant Navy, before moving into radio. Black died suddenly on 18 February 2013 after suffering a suspected heart attack at his home in Remuera, Auckland, just a few days short of his 70th birthday.
His last on-air role was at the 60s and 70s radio station Solid Gold, where he worked from 1997 until his retirement in 2009.
