Tony blackburn biography book

I don’t have a hard-luck story because I had a wonderful upbringing by the sea in Poole, Dorset with my parents, Pauline and Kenneth, and younger sister Jackie.

My parents were good, decent people and brought me up to be kind to others. They weren’t strict and I never wanted to rebel because I had nothing to rebel against. They instilled strong moral values in me.

My father was a GP with a wonderful sense of humour. His patients would say, “What a great doctor your father is.” He was one of those old-fashioned doctors who would come out to see you if you rang him in the middle of the night.

He’d even perform minor operations such as for an in-growing toenail.

The days spent as a radio pirate, to becoming the number one DJ in the UK for the best part of a decade.

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Poptastic is an autobiography of the man who was once the country's most successful and at the same time probably most reviled radio DJ.

Anthony Kenneth Blackburn OBE is an English disc jockey, singer and television presenter, whose career spans 60 years.

He was a big soul music fan and he introduced me to it – in particular Jackie Wilson’s Reet Petite, which was the only soul record he had. We played it non-stop. He could also be serious and he followed news of what was happening in the world, whi