

That's enough gigs for one week, Dawn (6 months preg with Amber) said. We'd also won 2 ticks for the Lightning Seeds that same week (part of the same prize, owing to an administrative error), and had bought tickets to see Blur 3 days later. I suppose it would have made a story of the 'I saw his last gig' type, but even then I wasn't that bothered.
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After that, the full details of the nastinesses were made public, and he fled the country and never did another gig since (I believe). And even my sister was more anti by then.īy all accounts, it was filled with fans of the 'ever true' variety, and Mr Glit was very 'thanks for standing by me you people yeah!'.
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Hmm, no relation to the morning DJ by any chance?Īnyhow, between winning and gig date, Mr Gary thought it would be a good idea to take his PC to PC World to get it repaired. (I got a credit card number to give to the venue's collection point, one xxxx Tarrant. I wasn't that bothered to be honest, but I rang the radio station to confirm details anyway, just in case my sister was interested. Back in the day, I won some tickets to go see him in London.

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After leaving Radio Caroline North in 1966, two years before it shut down, Teret worked in a series of DJ and media related work, mainly on the radio in the Manchester area, including Signal Radio and Piccadilly Radio. His theme music was Jungle Fever by the Tornados, and he also used The Ugly Bug Ball by Burl Ives. Teret joined Radio Caroline North in the mid-1960s, where he became known as “Ugli” Ray Teret. During this period, Savile referred to Teret as his son, while Teret referred to Savile as Dad. The pair later shared a flat on Great Clowes Street in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, with Teret becoming Savile’s support DJ, assistant and chauffeur. In the early 1960s, Teret met Jimmy Savile after winning the Savile-run singing contest at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. He was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and started work as a warehouse clerk, apprentice heating engineer and waiter at the Ritz Ballroom in Manchester. 1941) is an English radio disc jockey who started his career in the 1960s.
