Kenny Everett at 70

Harry Palmr

Christmas marks the 70th birthday of the great infantile terrible of British broadcasting esp radio.

BBC Radio 4 Extra has been looking at his early years, the final live broadcast of which goes out at 1.00 am tonight but its on the iplayer for the next month.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n4h2n

plus this from a couple of years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n4h2n

Starting tomorrow the station will be broadcasting the entirety of Captain Kremmen (scroll from the bottom up, possibly some sort of anti-joke joke as its her bosoms which stuck out)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n4f5f/episodes/guide

The Bould Rabbit

Nice one. Kenny Everett was feckin brilliant.

K.Flyer

He always did everything. .. "in the best possible taste" true comedic legend.

fryup

super talent, loved his zany humour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72M_4GfvVLM

ads20101

...and remember, without him there would be no queen.

No other mainstream dj was willing to play bohemian rhapsody before Kenny.

K.Flyer

That's right, it hasn't been released, but he got a copy of it from them and loved it so much he kept playing it again and again over his weekend show and the rest, as they say, is history.

Declan A Walsh

ads20101 wrote: »

...and remember, without him there would be no queen.

No other mainstream dj was willing to play bohemian rhapsody before Kenny.

It could well be the case that Kenny Everett helped the success of Bohemian Rhapsody, but it would be wrong to say there would have been no Queen without him. They already had a couple of hits, including Killer Queen which reached Number 2 in the U.K. charts.

Kenny Everett was a pioneering and adventurous broadcaster. Many have tried to be funny on radio since him. Unfortunately, a lot just succeeded in being purely inane and stupid. He was original and unique.

real rocker

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

It could well be the case that Kenny Everett helped the success of Bohemian Rhapsody, but it would be wrong to say there would have been no Queen without him. They already had a couple of hits, including Killer Queen which reached Number 2 in the U.K. charts.

Kenny Everett was a pioneering and adventurous broadcaster. Many have tried to be funny on radio since him. Unfortunately, a lot just succeeded in being purely inane and stupid. He was original and unique.

Declan, you are spot on with this summation of Kenny.

K.Flyer

April 4th 1995.