7. Claire McAlpine with Jimmy Savile on Top of the Pops, had written a diary before taking her life..
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10. 'BBC Radio One Breakfast Show DJ Mike Smith (right) is joined by former presenters of the early-morning slot as the network celebrates its 20th anniversary. From left: Dave Lee Travis, Noel Edmonds, Tony Blackburn and Mike Read.' 1987 flashbak.com/1987-photo-mik…
54. Flowers In The Rain ("Number Three in the Fun Thirty") followed,... songwriter Roy Wood recalls Blackburn telling him "it was just mad that morning and he just went for the first record he could lay his hands on and it was ours. Pure luck.''
Flowers.. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/…
55. Blackburn has won two lifetime achievement awards from the Radio Academy, the second of which was to mark his fifty years of broadcasting.
60. Tony Blackburn set to receive lifetime achievement prize at Radio Academy Awards'
'Tony accepted the same award 25 years ago from Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson.' express.co.uk/celebrity-news…
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Rolex - The Palais Garnier (18+) Part 2
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The Palais Garnier is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma all of its own...
1. ‘The Palais Garnier has been called "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica". This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and, especially, the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and the popular 1986 musical.’
2. ‘For the very first time in the Opera history, guests will have the occasion to spend the night at the Palais Garnier, the famous theatre house that inspired the legendary ‘Phantom of the Opera’. ’ operadeparis.fr/en/news/the-pa…