for the night, they ve packed up and they re ready to go home. a young musicjournalist called annie nightingale was furious. i think they thought, we ll have to have one who do we know? annie nightingale. and so i became the token women. and she stayed for more than a0 years. and what made her really stand out was that, even in her 70s, her taste in music hadn t aged. it s fatboy slim, live! for some reason, for me, i ve gone on on that interest in the new music, the undiscovered, the underground, and seeing it nurturing it, really. she was 17 when she decided to become a journalist. she got a job in brighton, she got to interview the beatles, and she became one of the first musicjournalists on fleet street. you don t mind mind the lack of money at the moment? in the largely all male world of rock, she was something of a pioneer. joey, johnny, dee dee and mark, the ramones.
she got a job in brighton, she got to interview the beatles, and she became one of the first musicjournalists on fleet street. you don t mind mind the lack of money at the moment? in the largely all male world of rock, she was something of a pioneer. joey, johnny, dee dee and mark, the ramones. and in the late 70s, helped drag the old grey whistle test into a new era. ladies and gentlemen, the damned! annie nightingale. more than 30 years later, she was still at the turntables her passion for the new, the undiscovered, as young as ever. live now to our entertainment correspondent liz mzimba. she had such an impact, didn t she? and such a wide range of taste in music. surely that means she had a big impact on a lot of careers, as
i think they thought, we ll have to have one who do we know? annie nightingale. and so i became the token women. and she stayed for more than 40 years. and what made her really stand out was that, even in her 70s, her taste in music hadn t aged. it s fatboy slim, live! for some reason, for me, i ve gone on on that interest in the new music, the undiscovered, the underground, and seeing it nurturing it, really. she was 17 when she decided to become a journalist. she got a job in brighton, she got to interview the beatles, and she became one of the first musicjournalists on fleet street. you don t mind mind the lack of money at the moment? in the largely all male world of rock, she was something of a pioneer. joey, johnny, dee dee and mark, the ramones. and in the late 70s, helped drag the old grey whistle test into a new era. ladies and gentlemen, the damned! annie nightingale. more than 30 years later,
When people say certain musicians should not get political and ‘stick to what you’re good at’, they are profoundly misunderstanding their music and actions