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Bernie Andrews

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CD box sets, provided by John Beecher of Rollercoaster Records, who purchased the collection from Andrews to preserve it after the BBC allegedly reneged on a negotiated agreement to compensate him for storing the tapes for many decades.
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engineer, he joined the BBC as a technical (tape machine) operator in 1957, later being promoted to producer. In the early 1960s, he began producing
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and re-recorded their performances of some of their own numbers, enabling them to pass on the second occasion as a "trial broadcast".
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recording sessions, including a number of complete episodes. Some of this material has been included on Volumes 8, 9 and 10 of
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among others. After the close working partnership between him and Peel was broken up, he became the main producer for
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as the main presenter. He was also responsible for producing the very popular BBC Radio 1's Top 20 show presented by
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or discarded for the sake of economy, and which in subsequent years were released officially, notably in the
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Bernie Andrews retired in 1984, and later lived in Spain and Dorset. He died in 2010 at the age of 76.
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in the early 1970s, working alongside engineer Pete Ritzema. He recorded the first BBC sessions of
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in the 1970s. He was known for his record library, at one time owning a collection of every
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bands from the 1960s onwards, and responsible for producing such programmes as
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Later in the 1960s, he became the first producer of the new
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to feature pop music, and frequently booked and recorded
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pop record released in Britain since 1958 later sold to
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Woolwich
Radio producer
English
BBC
radio producer
rock
pop
Saturday Club
John Peel
Woolwich
Eltham
national service
RAF
Post Office
telephone
BBC Light Programme
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Bo Diddley
Radio 1
Top Gear
John Peel
Tom Browne
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
Fairport Convention
Anne Nightingale
45rpm
Elton John
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