From King Crimson to Tinie Tempah: 40 years on Radio 1 with Annie Nightingale

The BBC's first female DJ is more likely to pick up a dubstep promo than a free bus pass; she shares 12 musical highs from her wild life on Radio 1When Annie Nightingale the BBC's first female DJ spun her first "disc" on the fledgling Radio 1 in 1970 the Beatles were still together and Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison were still alive. Hendrix, she says, was "a charming lovely man". Morrison was "a pretentious prat".Forty years later she's still on there, having navigated prog rock, punk, new wave,...

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