the people on the radio were kind of like my idols. i thought i want to do that i wanted to be a doctor. when i look back at it now i say why wasn t i a doctor? i say let me take two years to see if i can get to the top rock radio station in two years. i got there in 18 months. this isn t too bad. maybe i should keep doing this. top rock station in canada, all right? and you are an idol. it wasn t so much when i was in radio. it was when i moved to television and we started a program which was kind of like a rolling stone magazine called the new music. welcome to the new music. it was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. it seems when a form of music becomes popular, a lot of bands you never expect to see come up with big hits. i interviewed u 2, the police, the culture club, before anybody knew who they were. who is the biggest rock star you interviewed? probably robert plant. robert plant led zeppelin. he came in to the
the people on the radio were kind of like my idols. i thought i want to do that i wanted to be a doctor. when i look back at it now i say why wasn t i a doctor? i say let me take two years to see if i can get to the top rock radio station in two years. i got there in 18 months. this isn t too bad. maybe i should keep doing this. top rock station in canada, all right? and you are an idol. it wasn t so much when i was in radio. it was when i moved to television and we started a program which was kind of like a rolling stone magazine called the new music. welcome to the new music. it was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. it seems when a form of music becomes popular, a lot of bands you never expect to see come up with big hits. i interviewed u 2, the police, the culture club, before anybody knew who they were. who is the biggest rock star you interviewed? probably robert plant. robert plant led zeppelin. he came in to the
the people on the radio were kind of like my idols. i thought i want to do that i wanted to be a doctor. when i look back at it now i say why wasn t i a doctor? i say let me take two years to see if i can get to the top rock radio station in two years. i got there in 18 months. this isn t too bad. maybe i should keep doing this. top rock station in canada, all right? and you are an idol. it wasn t so much when i was in radio. it was when i moved to television and we started a program which was kind of like a rolling stone magazine called the new music. welcome to the new music. it was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. it seems when a form of music becomes popular, a lot of bands you never expect to see come up with big hits. i interviewed u 2, the police, the culture club, before anybody knew who they were. who is the biggest rock star you interviewed? probably robert plant. robert plant led zeppelin. he came in to the
i couldn t quite work out what the problem was. the bikers are on their ninth lap around the track when kirkham loses control. from my position, i could see them coming under a bridge just around a bend. oh! saw one bike just slide and starts heading what i thought was to my left-hand side. it was kirkham kirkham and the bike fly across the track and slid into the grass. i thought, this isn t too bad, i m not going to hit the barrier, i m just going to slide across the grass and stop. but i didn t miss the barrier. kirkham is knocked unconscious, but his 363-pound bike continues toward smith and his camera. there was no fear time of the actual crash. it all happened so fast. the bike moved so quickly and with such force, it s hard to tell how smith survives the impact. but a closer look at the video shot from another camera across the track reveals what happens in the critical seconds of the
from my position, i could see them coming under a bridge just around a bend. oh! saw one bike slide and starts heading what i thought was to my left-hand side. it was kirkham he flies across the track and slid into the grass. i thought, this isn t too bad, i m not going to hit the barrier, i m going to slide across the grass and stop. i didn t miss the barrier. kirkham is knocked unconscious, but his 363-pound bike continues toward smith and his camera. there was no fear time of the actual crash. no fear at the time of the actual crash. it all happened so fast. the bike moved so quickly and with such force, it s hard to tell how smith survives the impact. a closer look at the video shot from another camera across the track reveals what happens in the critical second of the accident. the bike had so much energy it hit the barrier and went up into the air did a few