1983 WAS the best year of my life. Steve Wright was simply awesome. Growing up listening to Radio 1 was part of my childhood and I hold it the the highest regards. The tunes were beyond fantastic, its now 40 years ago yet all i want to do is listen to videos like this and remember how great life was back then. Steve Wright should be knighted for making so many lives better, and happy back at a time when we had Greenham Common and all the other crazy stuff going on. Long live Steve Wright...
The music in 1983 was phenomenal, Steve Wright was phenomenal, his guest was phenomenal. He got such an alluring voice that was full of trust and honesty. I loved and literally adored this guy. Turning the volume up was absolutely necessary cos that was how addictive his show was. I worked with 10 other guys and he put us in stitches of laughter.
I remember being in hospital and Steve Wright in the Afternoon was the highlight of the day, his shows were always amazing, funny and interesting, his music choices,as always sublime and the velvety tone to his voice give a sort of soothing continuity of reassurance. RIP Steve and thank you for everything x
Thank you for expressing my feelings about him...I am very sad, I just keep wishing he hadn't died. The best, he was simply the best. Dearest Steve, goodbye friend, we all love you so so much ❤❤❤
Oh wow...bouncing thru' all the country lanes on the school bus going home listening to Wrighty Boy, with everyone shouting at the bus driver "TURN THE RADIO UPPPP...!!!" You'll never be forgotten Wrighty 🙏🙏🙏
The way it flowed his artistry in speaking and his broadcasting talent was always evident listening to him he was one of a kind in radio broadcasting and will be sadly missed
Aah, Janis Long. RIP. Wow this is truly a blast from the past. When radio 1 was quite smooth FM. Steve Wright a true radio ledge. 39 years ago and still sounds great. That's right!!!
I was working on the farm back in 1983 .I have grown up listening to Steve Wright rest in peace thank you for all the great music May god look after you up in heaven 🙏
radio was so much more of our lives, listening to the roadshows and all the great music. helped the day go by if you had a boring job. great times, and all off to the pub in the evening with your mates. I was 20 in 83. good memories
Great compilation. Ah the memories. Forgot how great his show was. Very similar to Kenny Everett, and why not. Steve's show was in a safe pair of hands.
The month/,year I left big school...I loved listening the top ten at dinner time 78 to 83 ....I also ran a mobile disco at a very young age, even being paid. Great times ☺️
The Possie ⚠️ Sid the Manager Mr ANGRY Mr Mad Ask Elvis Linda Lust Gervais the hairdresser Hopeless Weather girl Damian the Social Worker Barry from Watford The Pub singer would keep us entertained. Show was a tad silly but definitely made the working afternoon pass quicker !! My 1st job after training for 18 months as a Radar engineer in the RAF , was at RAF Locking in 1981. In 1T hangar where Radio 1 would be playing, Steve Wright came on who I'd not heard before. I was instantly hooked. He would go right up close to the microphone and say "C'mon touch your radio and feel the warmth of my sincerity " 😎 I could not believe it when BBC bosses axed his show in 2022 I cannot listen to Steve's replacement Scott Mills instead I listen to my own music collection instead. Too young to go Steve RIP 💜 Strange this tragedy has happened in the same week BBC are dismantling Wogan house. Nobody has mentioned this butmy belief is Steve couldn't face seeing his studio dismantled and basically destroyed.Dacades of memorabilia GONE.Did Steve died of a broken 💔?RIP Steve. You have been my afternoons since 1981 x
Every afternoon in the welding shop at JJ Blows, blasting out, spec Mr Angry, Chats Rd, Cfeld. Then the company closed down ore a Safe way, now a Morrisons. RIP SW, Sir.
Radio 2 would have a sports programme on Bank Holiday and allow Radio 1 a rare, yet welcome, opportunity to broadcast on FM, usually between 2 and 7 pm! They should have launched on VHF, as it was called for many years, from the get-go - they were playing all the latest hits, plus random oldies across the day - and that would have benefited from being in stereo - unfortunately, the BBC saw fit to relegate it to a 💩 medium wave frequency - making it sound worse than the pirate stations it was set up to replace!
It's interesting to note that the phrase "climate change" isn't automatically appended in the news report of floods in the East of France and Germany as it does today. M6 and M61 northbound tailbacks to Blackpool continue to this day though and this is most comforting.
This is the real Steve Wright, the real DJ McCoy of Radio 1 before Wokeism and Snowflake's liberal gender identification generation came along and snuffed it all out. Sorry, Steve, it had to be said. R.I.P Mate
He's like Chris Evans, neither seem able to do a show by themselves. Take Sunday Lovesongs, it's a request show where Steve doesn't need to do much apart from read messages out.
'tiz somewhat unfortunate that in the current BBC/PC woke agenda climate , Steve's show ( still going on Radio 2 every weekday 2.02 - 5.00pm , except bank hOlidays the jammy swine!) is not as full of fun and improvised frolicking around as this trip down memory lane.
Banal dribble from a dj who loves the sound of his own voice. Can't even play another presenters jingle without mimicking them. How on earth did he stay on the BBC for so long?
@dj4myparty mind you , Serious Jockin' with no 'g' is the dog's wotsits , if you're into that sort of thang innit? . . . but One must ask in all seriousness , Why oh bleedin' why does Steve play so much Ed bleedin' Sheeran and Justin bleedin' Bieber?
