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Richard Skinner (born 26 December 1951) [1] [2] is a British radio and television presenter.. He was the opening announcer and TV anchor at the Live Aid concert in 1985, and is the only presenter to have fronted all three of the BBC's leading pop music programmes, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops on television and the Radio One Top 40 show.
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
23 March – Richard Skinner presents the Sunday Top 40 for the final time. 29 March – Richard Skinner leaves the station for a while to join Capital Radio. 30 March – Bruno Brookes takes over as the host of The Official Chart. 18 April – Mike Read presents his final Radio 1 Breakfast show after five years in the hot seat. 3 May – Simon ...
Two INXS songs from the BBC broadcast are contained on Live Aid's four DVD boxed set released in 2004. [7] About 11,000 spectators paid $18.50 each, in order to see Oz for Africa. The concert and telethon, and the associated Sport Aid Oz, raised ten million Australian dollars for the International Disaster Emergency Committee in Australia.
In the 1980s he presented the BBC television music series The Old Grey Whistle Test [3] and was one of the presenters covering the 1985 Live Aid concert from Wembley Stadium. [4] On both of these he worked with long-term friend Mark Ellen. Hepworth famously provoked Bob Geldof to repeatedly use the word "fuck" live on air. [5]
Bryan Adams performed a live version of "Tears Are Not Enough" on July 13, 1985 during his Live Aid performance in Philadelphia. [ 6 ] On December 22, 1985, CBC Television aired a 90-minute documentary by John Zaritsky on the song and its creation.
Richard Muñoz Ramirez, dubbed by the media as the Night Stalker, killed at least 15 people and robbed, raped and beat many others between April 1984 and August 1985. His attacks were brutal and ...
Richard Skinner (1980–1985, plus 6 October 1988 and 19 January 1989) Tommy Vance (1980–1984) Steve Wright (1980–1989, plus Top of the Pops 2: 1997–2004, 2006–2007, 2008, 2009) John Peel (1981–1987, plus 14 December 1995) Andy Peebles (1979, 1981–1984) Tony Blackburn (1967–1979, 1981–1983, plus 31 December 1988, 4 April 2003 ...