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RIP Fluff!

Very saddened to hear of Fluff's passing.

In the summer of 1989 a group of us used to head for the Ladybower Inn. We'd open the boot of my car - it was an estate - and we'd sit and listen to Pick Of The Pops whilst we began that day's alcoholic intake. Then we'd do a couple of more pubs in the region before returning (usually) to the Rising Sun in Nethergreen (which I think closed at 3pm).

For some reason I decided to write to Alan Freeman to say how much we enjoyed doing this and much to my surprise he replied by way of two signed photographs and a personally typed letter! He referred to us as 'The Ladybower Gang'.

That now becomes a pleasant memory of sunshine, youth and 'not 'arf'.

RIP 'Fluff'.

Great shame....RIP Fluff

will he be missed as a huge part of my pop-picking youth?

Not 'alf!

Yes, very sad. I remember his Saturday afternoon shows from the 70s, which were like a prog rock answer to the John Peel show - Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, King Crimson and the like. Not that there was any antagonism either personally or musically, quite the reverse - sometimes him and Peel would share an album, with Peel playing one side on the Friday and Fluff playing the other on the Saturday. Like Peel, and unlike a lot of DJs at the time, he was actually interested in the music, but I also loved the flamboyant style, which was humorously/ironically anachronistic even at the time - i.e. he didn't take himself too seriously.

Yes, it was his Saturday show in the 70s that I remember too. You could count on him to play a track or two that went on for about 20 minutes, like Supper's Ready by Genesis. Prog rock heaven. RIP.

One of the most uniquely memorable DJ's - will be sadly missed. Smashy n Nicey won't be the same.

I saw him live with Tommy Vance at the Poly. Can't remember what the event was, but a great double act.

Both now sadly gone.

I remember in 1991 driving up the motorway listening to Fluff, and he said " I'm going to play something you won't believe ".

I though 'yeah, right'.

Two minutes later I had pulled onto the hard shoulder so I could hear it properly.

It was ' Pull me Under ' by Dream Theatre.

I was amazed. He knew his stuff and was not a young man at this time.

It prompted my company at the time to go out and get the contract to do their live sound.

Fluff, RIP.

if there is a god he's got himself an iconic DJ RIP Fluff

What a guy,, I loved Alan Freeman and was sorry to see him leave the airwaves.
He was in the same home as Richard O Sullivan, and became good mates, hope Richards health has improved.

Gosh, when you think, he was a professional who never took himself too seriously (and yet he knew his subject).

Can you imagine the talentless 'identikit' muppets employed by the likes of Advert FM (sorry, I think that should be Hallam) and Real FM being like that?

Not a chance on earth. Vance, Peel and Fluff were different class.

I've got a tape of him playing some of Uriah Heep's press launch of 'High and Mighty' in 1976, when they all started yodelling. He broadcasted it in about 1988 on the Saturday Night Rock Show. It's typical of the guy to have played something like that. An encyclopaedic knowledge, and a true love of what he did.

Before I went to pubs regularly (ahem), TV on the radio, Peelie, and Fluff were the mainstay of my music life, apart from 'Raw!', 'NME', and 'Kerrang!' flexi discs, and now they've all gone .......

I hope they're all enjoying a pint upstairs ........ (you lot provide the punchline) ....... oh alright ........

Not half ..........

Gosh, when you think, he was a professional who never took himself too seriously (and yet he knew his subject).

Can you imagine the talentless 'identikit' muppets employed by the likes of Advert FM (sorry, I think that should be Hallam) and Real FM being like that?

Not a chance on earth. Vance, Peel and Fluff were different class.

Out of this world, and deeply unfortunately for us all, now no longer of it.