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Hey Hi Hello

Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

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Hey Hi Hello

By: Annie Nightingale
Narrated by: Annie Nightingale
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About this listen

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR

As a DJ and broadcaster on radio, tv and the live music scene, Annie has been an invigorating and necessarily disruptive force. She walked in the door at Radio One in 1970 as its first female broadcaster. Fifty years later she continues to be a DJ and tastemaker who commands the respect of artists, listeners and peers across the world.

Hey Hi Hello tells the story of those early days at Radio One, the Ground Zero moment of punk and the arrival of acid house and the Second Summer of Love in the late 80s. Funny, warm and candid to a fault, including encounters with Bob Marley, Marc Bolan, The Beatles and interviews with Little Simz and Billie Eilish, this is a portrait of an artist without whom the past fifty years of British culture would have looked very different indeed.

©2020 Annie Nightingale (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity Funny Hip-Hop

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Critic reviews

"A joy to read." (Guardian)

"I loved this book." (Irvine Welsh)

"What a story! I adored it." (Lauren Laverne)
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The stories told are fascinating at times, but I had to listen on 1.4 speed to stay engaged with them.

Interesting, but so slow

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Only Annie herself could have narrated her wonderful professional memoir (nor a lot of her personal life here, but I respect that).
She recommends to hopeful aspiring DJs and presenters to speak to each listener as an individual. And that is what she does here- speaks to you as if you are together in your front room sharing a cup of tea or a gin and tonic. Priceless. Thank you Annie, I have listened to your shows from the beginning. You are an old friend.

Like an old friend

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Thought this would’ve been a really good book but it’s painful, I don’t think I’m gonna make it to the end

Hey hi goodbye

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A great listen with plenty of tips for budding broadcasters and also excerpts from her many interviews with music luminaries over the years.

An excellent book

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Annie Nightingale sounds like a drunken aunt who is reading with the wrong glasses on.

Awful

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