Kenny Everett
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Kenny Everett (born December 25, 1944 in Seaforth , Merseyside , † April 4, 1995 in London ; real life Maurice James Christopher Cole ) was a popular English radio DJ and television entertainer .
Life
Everett started working for the pirate radio station Radio London as a DJ in December 1964. Together with Dave Cash he presented the The Kenny and Cash Show there . In August 1966 he was allowed to accompany the Beatles on their last US tour - together with representatives from other pirate stations . In March 1967 he switched to the English language service of Radio Luxembourg . His coarse humor on the air always brought him difficulties, which forced him to change the channel. Everett married singer Lee 'Lady Lee' Middleton, Billy Fury's former girlfriend, in 1969.
After stints at Radio Monte Carlo and some British local stations, he finally ended up at Capital Radio when the station was founded on October 16, 1973.
During his work as a DJ at the London broadcaster Capital Radio , he was asked for advice by the Queen group in October 1975 because of the extraordinary length of the as yet unreleased piece Bohemian Rhapsody . Queens record company feared because of the excess length that the planned single would not get airplay on the radio . Everett played the song 14 times over a weekend and the response was overwhelming. Then the single was released on October 31, 1975 and became an evergreen .
In 1978 he went to BFBS in Cologne.
In 1979, Everett split from Lee Middleton and professed his homosexuality in the mid-1980s .
Everett found out about his AIDS in 1989 and made it public in 1993. He died on April 4, 1995, at the age of 50, of AIDS- related illness in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , London.
Shows hosted by Kenny Everett
radio
- Kenny & Cash Show Radio London (1964-1965)
- Kenny Everett Show Radio Luxembourg (1966)
- Midday Spin BBC Radio 1 (1967)
- Everett is Here BBC Radio 1 Saturdays 10 am-12midday (1968-1970)
- Kenny Everett Show BBC Local Radio (1971)
- Kenny Everett Show BBC Radio 1 Sundays 1-3pm (1972)
- Breakfast Show Capital Radio (1973-1974)
- Kenny Everett Show Capital Radio (1974-1980)
- Kenny Everett Show BBC Radio 2 Saturdays 11 am-1pm (1981–1983)
- Kenny Everett Show Capital Radio Saturdays 11 am-1pm (1983–1988)
- Weekday Afternoons Capital Gold 1-4pm (1988-1991)
- Weekday mid-mornings Capital Gold 9 am-12midday (1991–1994)
television
- Nice Time Granada Television (1968)
- The Kenny Everett Blast LWT (1970)
- The Kenny Everett Video Show Thames Television (1978–1980)
- The Kenny Everett Video Cassette Thames Television (1981)
- The Kenny Everett Television Show BBC (1981-1987)
- Brainstorm BBC - (1988)
- Gibberish BBC - (1992)
literature
- James Hogg, Robert Sellers: Hello Darlings! The Authorized Biography of Kenny Everett. Random House, London 2013.
Web links
- Kenny Everett in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kenny Everett's website on the BBC
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Roberts (Ed.): Guinness World Records - British Hit Singles and Albums . 19th ed. 2006, ISBN 1-904994-10-5 , p. 189
- ↑ Kathy Charmaz, Glennys Howarth, Allan Kellehear: The unknown country: death in Australia, Britain, and the USA . Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 0-312-16545-5 , p. 162.
- ↑ Transitions . In: Here Publishing (Ed.): The Advocate . No. 681, May 16, 1995, p. 19. ISSN 0001-8996 .
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| SURNAME | Everett, Kenny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cole, Maurice James Christopher (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English entertainer and presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seaforth , Liverpool |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1995 |
| Place of death | London |