unicorn
Well-Known Member
Anyone who played out with "Wichita Lineman" is OK with me.But why did you dislike him so much? That thread, having just skim read 4 or 5 of the pages, is Bluemoon at its worst; a thread full of reactionary posters (mostly) slagging something (in this case Steve Wright) off, for no apparent reason. Most posts just saying variations on they don’t like him.
Unless there’s something about him in the background of which I’m not yet aware, I’ll continue to hold the view he was a positive presence on the radio, with a decent taste in music too.
2 days on I still feel oddly cut up about his death; I think it's because he got put out to pasture off the BBC despite being (as I understand it) pretty much as good as he'd been for the previous 40 years.
As I've said before, his show wasn't for me, but I had tremendous respect for him, bit like Wogan or Monkhouse I guess.
This little video from the '80s shows him in a good light, I think.