Career
Between 1967 and 1969 he was one of the regular presenters of British Broadcasting Corporation"s Top of the Pops. He left the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1974 to join Radio Luxembourg. He subsequently suffered for many years with multiple sclerosis and he worked through his illness until he became too ill to broadcast, being assisted on air during his later years by Ollie, the illness accounting for his later distinctive rather halting speech delivery.
On 2 December 2004 he was posthumously inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame, honouring his outstanding contribution to United Kingdom radio.