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	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Tony Blackburn in Sir Cliff row
		A spokesman for Blackburn said he was disappointed at his suspension and conceded he may have made a mistake.
		Blackburn's spokesman confirmed reports of a conflict between the DJ and the station over its musical policy.
		Blackburn was voted Oldie of the Year in 2003 and won the 2002 edition of TV reality show I'm a Celebrity...
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3833441.stm (499 words)

	Tony Blackburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tony Blackburn (born January 29, 1943 in Guildford, Surrey, England) is an award winning British disc jockey.
		In 1988 Tony joined Capital Gold where he presented the Breakfast show for many years and later moved to the Drivetime show.
		Tony left Capital Gold in late 2002 and presented many shows on Jazz FM in London and the North of England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Blackburn (780 words)

	Tony Blackburn
		Tony Blackburn was born in Guildford, Surrey in 1943 and the family then moved to Dorset in 1948.
		Tony is a legend of the airwaves and has become a household name through his DJ-ing, TV Shows, and he inspired the cult of the radio DJ.
		Tony is still a big attraction on the DJ circuit, having toured many of the Rank Clubs around England in '99, challenging local radio DJs and Kiss 100's Bam Bam in a battle of the DJs.
	www.chronoglide.com /WWWS_MiniPages/MPTonyBlackburn.html (629 words)

	MPC Entertainment - Number 1 for Entertainment and Sport
		Tony then spent some time at BBC London, before leaving to join Capital Radio on 2nd July 1988 to launch their new Capital Gold station where he presented his soul shows until December 2002.
		Tony is still a big attraction on the DJ circuit, having toured nearly every club in Britain in his career!.
		Tony continues to make many personal appearances with his trademark 70s and 80s show, including his annual trek to one of Ibiza's top clubs - proving that he's the original.
	www.mpce.com /blackburn.shtml (660 words)

	Tony Blackburn
		Born in Guildford, Surrey in 1943, Tony was educated at Millfield Public School in Somerset, and Bournemouth College.
		Tony joined the BBC Light Programme in August 1967 and made his first broadcast on the "Midday Spin" programme.
		Tony then spent some time at BBC Radio London, before leaving to join Capital Radio on 2nd July 1988 to launch their new Capital Gold station.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /people/Tony_Blackburn.htm (319 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk \| Media \| DJ suspended for playing Cliff Richard
		Tony Blackburn has been suspended from the Classic Gold digital radio station for the heinous crime of repeatedly playing Cliff Richard records.
		According to emails seen by MediaGuardian.co.uk, Blackburn was called into a meeting on Monday with the UBC head of programmes, Paul Baker, and warned not to play songs by Richard as it was against station policy.
		Blackburn was unavailable for comment but Mr Baish said the veteran DJ "would not be on air tomorrow".
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1245543,00.html?=rss (439 words)

	Radio Rewind - BBC Radio 1 People - Tony Blackburn - Sensational!
		Tony knew this was an audition for the yet to be launched Radio 1.
		Tony's musical passion is soul music, and he is famous for his light humoured 'corny' jokes and upbeat presentation.
		Tony was voted the winner by viewers and, along with the other contestants, raised thousands of Pounds for his chosen charity.
	www.radiorewind.co.uk /tony_blackburn_page.htm (1468 words)

	The Times - Britain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tony Blackburn was suspended from his morning radio show yesterday for persistently playing Cliff Richard records.
		Mr Blackburn, 61, was last night in talks with the management of the Bedfordshire-based Classic Gold Digital, where his breakfast show attracts an estimated 400,000 listeners.
		The trouble began on Monday when Mr Blackburn was ordered not to play any more Cliff Richard tracks because he was not on the station’s playlist, which is drawn up by the managers.
	avantgo.thetimes.co.uk /services/avantgo/article/0,,1155982,00.html (471 words)

	Housewives' favourite DJ Tony Blackburn reveals racy side in autobiography \| Mail Online
		Tony turned off his mobile phone when he heard the news because he knew he would be asked to provide a tribute.
		Tony Blackburn's was the first voice heard on Radio One, launching the station on September 30, 1967.
		Blackburn was horrified by this extraordinary menage a quatre.
	www.dailymail.co.uk /femail/article-481879/Housewives-favourite-DJ-Tony-Blackburn-reveals-racy-autobiography.html (3131 words)

	Aircheck Tracker
		Profile: Tony Blackburn: Born in Guildford, Surrey in 1943, Tony was educated at Millfield Public School in Somerset and Bournemouth College.
		Tony is an expert in Soul and Motown, but claims that the secret of his success lies in not taking the music he plays too seriously.
		The Mirror said Tony was axed after ignoring repeated warnings, The Guardian suggested, rather humorously, that Blackburn had gone on a 'Summer Holiday', whilst the BBC's news and sport service, BBC Radio Five Live only exacerbated the confusion between the prominent Gold services, reporting that Tony Blackburn had been sacked by London station Capital Gold.
	www.geocities.com /thehotw/TonyBlackburntracker.htm (2693 words)

	BBC - London - Radio - Tony Blackburn
		Tony plays the music of your life, every Sunday lunchtime in this new show which mixes the best of the 60, 70s and 80s.
		Tony also invites you to share your memories of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
		Today, Tony presents the breakfast show for The Classic Gold Network, which transmits across 18 stations as well as presenting his soul show on BBC London on Monday evenings and Saturday afternoons.
	www.bbc.co.uk /london/content/articles/2005/05/24/tony_blackburn_person_profile.shtml (766 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Tony Blackburn on BBC London
		Tony Blackburn is coming home to BBC London 94.9 next week when he starts a new Monday evening Soul Show (8.00-10.00pm from 8 March).
		From 17 April, Tony will also present a second show on BBC London 94.9 when he launches his Saturday lunchtime (Noon-2.00pm) programme, a mix of the soul music for which he has become renowned, as well as phone calls and guests.
		Tony Blackburn first joined BBC Radio London in 1984 where he introduced the first ever soul programme in the UK.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/03_march/03/tony_blackburn.shtml (389 words)

	Who's Who in Pop Radio - Radio London (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in Australia, Tony began his working career as a salesman and announcer on a Sydney radio station, but within a short time hod become the number one man at the mike.
		Tony's fl hair and blue eyes make him a great favourite with female listeners and always earn him a round of screams whenever he appears on dry land-which he frequently does on stage and television, both singing and compering.
		Tony is one of the newer recruits to Big L, but brings to it a knowledge of today's music which can scarcely be equalled by any other d.j.
	www.paulplu.demon.co.uk /whos_who/london.htm (2134 words)

	Tony Blackburn
		Tony Blackburn may be best known for his terrible jokes and tea-cosy haircut, but he is now favourite to win I'm A Celebrity...
		Tony started his career on pirate radio station Caroline and was the first DJ to spin a disc on BBC Radio One when it launched in 1967.
		Tony is a bit of a romantic at heart, releasing three singles in 1965/6 with Fontana Records including It's Only Love and So Much Love.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/9-6-2002-25904.asp (489 words)

	Ananova - Tony suspended over Cliff
		Tony Blackburn has been suspended for repeatedly playing Cliff Richard records on his radio breakfast show.
		Blackburn was reportedly called into a meeting with the UBC head of programmes, Paul Baker, and warned not to play songs by Richard as it was against station policy.
		An unrepentant Blackburn read out the email at around 8.20am this morning then tore it up live on air, threw it in the bin and played two Cliff Richard tracks back to back.
	www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_998097.html (246 words)

	DJ suspended for playing Cliff Richard - Music - www.theage.com.au
		Veteran British DJ Tony Blackburn has been suspended for defying orders to stop playing Cliff Richard records.
		Blackburn's bosses at Classic Gold Digital told him not to report for work yesterday after he read on air a warning that he was breaking company policy by broadcasting Sir Cliff's music.
		Blackburn, 61, joined the show in May last year and has an audience of 400,000.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/24/1088046220370.html (367 words)

	The Elvis Costello Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We don't know what went on in the corridors of radio power, but when Tony Blackburn (who you might image Costello regarding as Fool No. 1) first played the single on Radio 1 he felt compelled to comment on the Iyrics.
		In fairness to Blackburn, however, he did go on to say that, despite the words, he liked Costello's single and thought it was his best so far.
		Tony Blackburn, nevertheless, kept returning to his attack on Costello as a "silly little man" on other occasions when he played "Radio Radio".
	www.elviscostello.info /articles/s/smash_hits.781201a.html (407 words)

	Tony Blackburn is still fighting John Peel - Telegraph
		Perhaps it was the trauma of having to perform this act of obeisance to his sainted rival that led Tony Blackburn to exact revenge in his autobiography.
		In 1985, he published Tony Blackburn: The Living Legend, which covers, as one might expect, much the same ground as the new one and is, in most respects, strikingly similar.
		His widow then recalls that, back in 1970, Tony Blackburn told the Wellingborough News that Peel's show spoilt his weekend listening: "I really think it should be taken off the air," he complained, before condemning the kind of bands favoured by John as "hairy, scruffy individuals, unsociable towards everyone".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/10/06/do0609.xml (1464 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tony Blackburn Poptastic!: My Life in Radio: Tony Blackburn: Books
		Tony Blackburn is probably one of the most recognizable disc jockeys working in Britain today, and is always busy doing what he does best - playing music to listeners.
		Tony Blackburn's career in radio can be judged only by the quantity, because there was very little quality.
		Tony may have been the housewife's choice 30 years ago,but that is the limit of his musical knowledge.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Tony-Blackburn-Poptastic-Life-Radio/dp/1844036006 (1062 words)

	The National Autistic Society - Tony Blackburn - King of the Jungle and Champion of The National Autistic Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tony Blackburn, former Radio One DJ, pledged his winnings to the NAS due to his personal connection with Fiona Farrell, a former London Tonight presenter and mother of a son with autism.
		"I watched Tony win last night and I know he chose the NAS because he, like me, is a good friend of Fiona Farrell and is moved by her struggle to bring up her son Brett who has autism.
		Tony Blackburn will be visiting The NAS later this month with Fiona Farrell and Jane Asher (NAS President).
	www.nas.org.uk /nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=168&a=2586&view=print (446 words)

	JamesBowman.net
		he winner, by the way, a 59 year-old disc-jockey called Tony Blackburn, is said to be the sort of guy who has "a bit of a rant about lack of respect, crumbling standards, society in a rut, etc." In short, he’s a right-wing nut.
		Tony does not believe in swearing in front of ladies and he was particularly distressed when the younger ones cursed in front of his new best friend, Christine" — another of the celebrity castaways whose claim to fame seems to be that she is the wife of a disgraced Member of Parliament.
		Thus, "a vote for Tony meant that you believed in the same old-fashioned virtues of courtesy and respect that he did.
	www.jamesbowman.net /diaryDetail.asp?hpID=27 (610 words)

	Brandish: Tony Blackburn slags off John Peel in autobiography, reveals himself to be the not-so-nice-guy of BBC Radio
		Tony Blackburn slags off John Peel in autobiography, reveals himself to be the not-so-nice-guy of BBC Radio
		Think "Tony Blackburn" and the image of a typical clean cut, wholesome radio and TV presenter with immaculate teeth and sparkling hair is immediately conjured in the mind.
		While probably the least shocking disclosure in his autobiography is of the tense relationship he had with fellow DJ and all round musical legend John Peel, it still comes as a nasty surprise that Blackburn would choose to slag Peel off when he's in the worst position to defend himself i.e.
	www.brandish.tv /2007/10/tony-blackburn-.html (491 words)

	icEssex - Stars support fallen Tony in Cliff row
		DJ Tony Blackburn has won his battle to play Cliff Richard songs at Classic Gold Digital and has been reinstated after stars of the entertainment industry came out in support of him.
		But Blackburn blatantly refused and started a listener campaign, asking people to text in their support.
		Noel Edmonds, who is a former colleague of Tony from Radio 1 and whose company now owns 80 per cent of shares in Classic Gold, told the Daily Mirror he would do his best to help his pal out.
	icessex.icnetwork.co.uk /showbiz/tm_objectid=14362416&method=full&siteid=50102&headline=stars-support-fallen-tony-in-cliff-row-name_page.html (378 words)

	Guardian \| Tony Blackburn's unexpected Summer Holiday
		As the breakfast show host for a radio station devoted to classic hits of the past 40 years, Tony Blackburn could be forgiven for thinking it was compulsory to play the occasional Cliff Richard record.
		Things came to a head on Monday when Blackburn, a former Radio 1 DJ and recent winner of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, was told to stop playing records by Cliff.
		By now furious that his judgment was being questioned, Blackburn read out the email on air at 8.20am yesterday, tore it up, threw it in the bin and played Living Doll and We Don't Talk Any More.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4955152-103690,00.html (370 words)

	Digital Spy - Radio - Tony Blackburn returns to BBC London
		Tony Blackburn will host Monday evening and Saturday lunchtime shows on the BBC's local radio station for London, it was announced on Wednesday.
		Blackburn will also host a Saturday lunchtime programme combining soul music with phone calls and guests.
		Blackburn first joined BBC Radio London in 1984.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /article/ds13719.html (210 words)

	Long summer holiday for suspended British DJ. 24/06/2004. ABC News Online
		Long summer holiday for suspended British DJ Veteran British DJ Tony Blackburn has been suspended from his morning radio show for defying a ban on playing Cliff Richard records.
		Bosses at Classic Gold Digital radio fired off a furious email to Blackburn, a pioneer of pop music radio in Britain, to say it was against company policy to play tracks from the venerable crooner.
		Blackburn retaliated by ripping up the warning live on air, then spinning two Cliff Richard hits back to back: We Don't Talk Any More and Living Doll.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200406/s1139041.htm (275 words)

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		Bosses at Classic Gold Digital radio fired off a furious email to Tony Blackburn, a pioneer of pop music radio in Britain, to say it was against company policy to play tracks from the 63-year-old knight.
		Blackburn retaliated by ripping up the warning live on air, then playing two Cliff Richard hits: We Don't Talk Any More and Living Doll.
		"Tony is gutted," said a friend quoted by Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /cgi-bin/blah/Blah.pl?b=NG,m=1088087860 (311 words)

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