Paul Morley on former Radio 1 superstar DJ Tony Blackburn

Paul Morley celebrates Tony Blackburn's plummy, sunny, urgently relaxed DJing styleIn the Top 20 list of people I have always wanted to interview, in between Julie Andrews and Gilbert and George, just below David Dickinson and David Lynch, there lies Tony Blackburn. In fact, the person I would want to read out that list is Tony Blackburn, using a voice that seems to mix something godlike with something happily half-witted, a voice so full of cheer and bonhomie it borders on the sinister, a voice...

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