[…]uite strong in that respect and I believe that’s what should happen today. It is all done on computers so the music doesn’t reflect the tastes of the disc jockey at all. It reflects the taste of the computer which I think destroys it a lot because if you live or die by the music you play and i[…]
[…]S] And record it. And he’d do three numbers in no time at all, and that was recorded on optical, and we shot it straight away, and also on an acetate disc. I don’t know whether you know about acetate discs: an aluminium disc with some acetate on it and you cut it. I had to operate that but I didn’t […]
[…]. Yes. John Ammonds 1:31 I don't know what's happened to him. John P. Hamilton 1:32 Disc jockey still surely isn't he? John Ammonds 1:34 Not over here I don't know. I think he went to America didn[…]
[…]her said to me “Why don’t you try and get into ITV somehow, you know try and do something on ITV to do with cartooning.” So, I had this idea of discs being drawn to as they played, doing a parody on the lyrics. I thought well that’s not a bad idea, perhaps I could develop that. And[…]
[…]o looked much younger than my age and dressed badly and was a general sort of, you know, nice provincial girl. And he then talked to me for a bit and discovered I knew nothing about anything and he thought, I don’t know what he thought, but he sort of started doing a little dictation and every time […]
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[…] flipped discs. I became very proficient at being my own disc jockey, because I put on my own discs, of […]
[…]e to assert your sort of personality and and by the end of it, it was started sort of, there's like a cruise actually I sort of became, you know, the disc jockey and the, you know, the caterer and running the mess and various other things. So you were able to assert yourself and find your own person[…]
[…] to take my discharge in this country. I took my disc harge in this country, and joined MGM in Tower […]
