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Johnnie Walker: Radio’s rock ‘n’ roll pirate
Johnnie Walker’s long radio career was shaped by his early years as a pirate broadcaster in the 1960s, bobbing around on the ocean on Radio Caroline. Even 50 years later, his wife Tiggy would refer to him as “the pirate”. It remained more than apt, given that his subsequent time on mainstream radio was marked…
BBC Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker dies at 79
DJ Bob Harris, who took over BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the 70s show after Walker’s retirement, announced his former colleague’s death live on the station on Tuesday. Walker had pulmonary fibrosis, which is scarring of the lungs, a condition which makes breathing difficult. He stepped down from presenting Sounds of the 70s and The…