Steve Wright and serious jockin on radio 2

[LuS1fer]

944 Man said:

If you listened to Wogan and then KB it showed how poor he was. A poor and desperate man’s Wogan. Smug and unfunny.

Steve Wright was revolutionary in his day and he changed radio. Had it got a bit tired? Yes, but he was getting on.

Seeing the hate here made me cringe, particularly from old farts who venerated Ken Smug Bruce.

Other way round for me. I found Wogan smug and unfunny and all that Janet and John rubbish was terribel.

I wouldn't call Ken smug at all, he just got on, played some good music and gave us Popmaster, for the intelligent ones amonsgst us.

Steve was brilliant, in his day, inspired by Kenny Everett but sort of disappeared down his own rabbit hole which was always the same. Talented bloke but lost touch.

[Blackpuddin]

If car makers kept churning out the same stuff year after year there'd be an uproar (Merc W124 being the one honourable exception of course). That's where SW went wrong. He was too interested in polishing what he had and saw no need for reinvention. All IMO.

Edited by Blackpuddin on Monday 19th February 13:10

[Legacywr]

LuS1fer said:

944 Man said:

If you listened to Wogan and then KB it showed how poor he was. A poor and desperate man’s Wogan. Smug and unfunny.

Steve Wright was revolutionary in his day and he changed radio. Had it got a bit tired? Yes, but he was getting on.

Seeing the hate here made me cringe, particularly from old farts who venerated Ken Smug Bruce.

Other way round for me. I found Wogan smug and unfunny and all that Janet and John rubbish was terribel.

I wouldn't call Ken smug at all, he just got on, played some good music and gave us Popmaster, for the intelligent ones amonsgst us.

Steve was brilliant, in his day, inspired by Kenny Everett but sort of disappeared down his own rabbit hole which was always the same. Talented bloke but lost touch.

Steve was the best of the 3.

I felt his R2 show could have continued, but I realise it wasn’t out of bounds that his time was coming to an end.

There was a time when I really hated his show, and couldn’t bring myself to listen. It was the period when he had hi posey, I can’t remember when that was, though? Early 90’s?

[RC1807]

Essarell said:

Gary Davis just holding it together for the special SW edition of pick of the pops.

Listened to that on Saturday whilst driving in France.
You could hear his voice, holding back obvious emotions.
They must have known each other for 40+ years.

[mercedeslimos]

I've been listening back to some of his stuff on Spotify, certainly, a very comforting familiar voice that you tend to get rarely, especially in Ireland where I live nowadays. Whenever I'm back in the UK I'd stick on R2, R1 having got far too progressive for me at the ripe old age of 35! I only found out about his death on Saturday when Gareth O'Callaghan paid tribute to him - I found out then that Gareth had worked in UK radio in the eighties, and joined the dots that the sound and style are very familiar to listeners of Wrighty's love songs.