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These days I often listen to Greatest Hits Radio .... minimal ad's, and they invariably play quality songs. (I gave Absolute 80's a run for a while, but the morning presenters dominate rather than simply playing music, and they appear to have a zzzzzzzz bias to Phil Collins, Nik Kershaw and...

I listened to R1 all the time in those early Steve Wright days and he was crap then as well. All about the music. He’d play The Eagles perfectly uninterrupted, whilst talking over and bunging in yawn sounds over New Wave or post Punk music. With time wasted with the posse of fellow nerds...

I always think of Wnkr Steve Wright in the same breath as Jonathan King (without the crimes). An boring obsession with middle of the road white US bilge from the 70’s and 80’s, Adrian Gurvitz, REO Speedwagon and Christopher Cross. Whilst unable to see the brilliance of music from his own...

A radio station playing late 70’s onwards anything (but no rock/heavy metal/Eagles/west coast) would be good for me.

He is. And behind the faux jokey persona, the wally is a snide and narrow minded musically.

With the odd exception such as Kraftwerk, RoxyM and Bowie, some idling music years IMO, which took a brilliant change of direction in 1976 and 1977 for kids and teenagers. More than a cliche, it changed everything.

R2 in the 70’s and 80’s was crap. I only heard it in shops as a kid, thankfully my Dad loved R1. R2 played barbershop singers, The Dave Clark Five, Engelbert Humperdinck, Lulu, Cliff Richard. All without irony. R1 used to have a huge demographic.

Totally agree with you on Bruce and Vine ... a good few hours, and Wright who is a talentless bore with his little gang of mates.

How the hell did D lister Rylan Clark get the R2 gig? He’s of an R1 age group and a professional chaser of stardom through lowest common denominator TV progs. R2 is better than that. Talk about dumbing down.