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BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, while its sister station 1Xtra plays black contemporary music, including hip hop and R&B.
"Flowers in the Rain" achieved its own place in pop history by being the first record [4] to be played on BBC Radio 1 when the station was launched on 30 September 1967. (Technically, both George Martin 's specially commissioned " Theme One " and John Dankworth 's "Beefeaters" were the first tracks to be heard on the station. [ 5 ] "
The Best of BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge is a collection of live tracks played on Jo Whiley's and Fearne Cotton's Radio 1 shows. It consists of both covers and the bands' own songs. It consisted of tracks previously available on past Live Lounge compilation albums, as well as one that was previously unavailable. [1]
Theme One is a 1967 instrumental piece by George Martin used from 1967 to the mid 1970s as the opening and closing theme tune for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. Theme One was first played on Radio 2, immediately before Radio 1 began broadcasting independently, on the launch day of both stations, 30 September 1967 [1] (The Move's "Flowers in the Rain" was the first record played in full on Radio 1).
The Live Lounge is a segment on the British radio stations BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra.It was originally hosted by Simon Mayo, and later by Jo Whiley on her weekday mid-morning, and later weekend lunchtime radio shows, then by Fearne Cotton from 2009 until 2015, and then by Clara Amfo from May 2015 to August 2021.
A feature created to celebrate Radio 1's fortieth anniversary, which over time underwent various format changes. The public vote for the best song out of five picked from the current date in random years in Radio 1's forty-year history. A consistent pattern was noted that if one of the songs is from the mid-1990s it would usually win.
The 9–10 weekday slot was eventually named Radio 1's Greatest Hits, becoming the somewhat unwieldy Radio 1's Greatest Hits: The Mystery Years in 1999. Listeners were challenged to answer a question on a piece of archive footage from the relevant year. Mayo continued The Mystery Years until he left the station on 16 February 2001.
The Jo Whiley Show was a British weekday later weekend radio show on BBC Radio 1 hosted by Jo Whiley.The programme was on air from February 2001 to March 2011 and was broadcast each weekday morning between 10:00am and 12:45pm, and later 13:00-16:00 each weekend afternoon.