Her cast-iron determination - and a recommendation from Derek Taylor, then press officer for The Beatles - secured her a coveted slot on the station in 1967 as its first female presenter.
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Diplomatic and discreet, the veteran Tony Visconti, who has just released a compilation of his work, has become a role model of what a flexible producer should look like