Radio Afficionados
with a few of my radio friends:
QUATROS AMIGOS!
Four Radio Caroline colleages:
George Sanders, Patrick Starling,
Paul Rusling & Dick Palmer.
With Sylvan Mason, the only female singer to spend the night on the Mi Amigo! Sylvan made some great records and wrote lots of hits (including Delilah) and a brilliant photographer who supplied several pix on this web site.
"Make up your own caption" challenge . .
put a thought into Ronan O'Rahilly's head!
Paul and Mike Read present a bottle of Champagne
to Man of the Match, Nick Barmby
Another Radio Caroline REUNION:
Nick Bailey, Mick Luvzit, Admiral Robbie Dale, Tommy Vance, Keith Hampshire, Johnnie Walker, Keith Skues, Ronan O'Rahilly, Dave Lee Travis, Mark Sloan, Graham Gill, Tom Edwards, Paul Rusling, Graham Webb & Mike Ahern.
Paul with Mike Ahern & Mick Luvzit. Both were major stars on both Carolione ships and at stations in the UK, Oz & Canada.
In an Amsterdam restaurant
with ace Caroline & Radio Mi Amigo DJ Walter Simmons & Sir Hans Knot
SUCCESS
- how do you measure it?
Being well paid for doing one's job is a good and I certainly can't grumble about the amounts I've been paid in all of my work. My wife Anne and I have always worked really hard and for very long hours too. We have invariably been well rewarded, but there is something else that's much mroe important than they pay. No, its not recognition (we don't do awards and things like that).
Success comes from being HAPPY.
It's as simple as that. The key aspect of enjoying your work is ENJOYMENT. The sheer fun one can have, so that you wake up and look forward to getting up and going to work in the morning, of being dragged away at 10 o'clock at night after a long day, and not wanting to go home beacuse you are enjoying the work so much and could happilly stay on all night (and I have done done just that many times!)
The "100% energy trip" one of my mentors used to call it. That was dear old Chris Cary who really knew the meaning of "work hard, play hard".
But its also working with your idols. People whose work you admire, and then you get to work with them. It's a great feeling to learn 'at the knee' of such music business and broadcasting legends. It would be "shameless name dropping", to list the well known people I've had the good fortune to work with over the years. And many more who I have simply met in the course of my work in radio - many household names from the world of radio, but also quite a lot of really well known artistes, some of whom became friends.
Working the Clubs
I was very very lucky to work the clubs in the 70s and met many world-famous artists as well as many when they were relatively unknown "up and coming" performers, and who have since made it big. Some of them I am happy to say I've remained good friends with. One or two I would prefer to forget!
Yorkshire Coast Radio
This small group on the right is team I'm very proud of, its my co-directors at Yorkshire Coast Radio in Scarborough. I'm proud to say that I ensembled the team which included such liuminaries as Wilf Proudfoot, the former MD of Radio 270 and twice an MP, the main architect of the UK legislation that ushered in commerecial Radio. Also in the picture are his son Ian Proudfoot and Toby Horton, former MD of Radio Tees.
Our original plan was to put Yorkshire Coast Radio on a boat in Scarborough harbour, and there is still a plaque on the quayside in Scarborough to the former trawler the Heatherleigh that our chairman Tom Pindar bought for the role.
With two very tall friends:
the delightful Annoeske Drankier, of SurfRadio
and Roger 'Twiggy' Day, one of my heroes since 1966.
Dinner with two great pals,
KEITH SKUES
of Radio Caroline, Big L, BBC Radio 1, Radio 2, everywhere! and
ANDREW WORK
, who is a globe-trotting telecoms guru.
Swapping stories of bygone days with my first ever radio hero - The Admiral Robbie Dale.
with "Yer Royal Ruler" TONY PRINCE, one of Radio Caroline's first stars who also ran Luxembourg and set up TV's Wedding Channel, the DMC and MixMag.
Paul Rusling and Ronan O'Rahilly comparing dance moves (now called throwing shapes!) on a dance floor.
At the controls of Egypt's 500,000 MW transmitter with Dr Fahti Kabbary,
and below with Eddie Startup, a veteran of too many radio stations to mention!
Having a giggle with Caroline colleagues:
Andy Archer, Robb Eden and Don Stevens
Some Beatles fans won't like this one, but I was proud to get this tweet in 2011, many years after meeting the lady.
Paul chairing the "Future of Radio"panel at the World DJ Convention
with Labour's Mark Fisher MP & Chris Cary.
On stage in Holland with
Radio City & Radio 270 DJ Mike Hayes
Radio NorthSea & Laser 558 DJ Paul May
Dinner with two greats of Dutch radio -
Radio Monique DJ
Walter Simons & Sir Hans Knot
on stage at the London Hippodrome, with Mark Fisher & Chris Cary
YCR's first board : Wilf Proudfoot, Toby Horton, Ian Proudfoot, Geoff Winn and Barry Robinson (Paul at the front)
Paul Rusling
Working the Clubs
I was lucky to "work the clubs" in the 70s; mostly venues for Mecca and Baileys. As a night club DJ and compere I was honoured to work with many artists. Some, I've remained good friends with.
SUCCESS - how do you measure it?
Being well paid for doing one's job is a good way I suppose. I certainly can't grumble about the amounts I've been paid or have made along the way. Anne and I have always worked really hard and for very long hours too. We have invariably been well rewarded, but there is something else that's much mroe important than they pay. And its not recognition; or awards and things like that.
True success comes from being HAPPY.
It's as simple as that. The key aspect of enjoying your work is ENJOYMENT. The sheer fun that one can have, waking up and looking forward to going to work. Ive often had to be dragged away at 10 o'clock at night after a long day, not wanting to go home , because the work is so enjoyable. I could happilly stay on all night (and I have done done just that many times!)
The 100% Energy Trip
The "100% energy trip" one of my mentors used to call it. That was dear old Chris Cary who really knew the meaning of "work hard, play hard".
Life is much more fun if you can help someone else out and enrich their lives. It can be fun working with your idols, people whose work you admire. It's a great feeling to learn 'at the knee' of music business and broadcasting legends. It would be "shameless name dropping" to list the well-known people I've had the good fortune to work with over the years. Radio and club work has brought me in touch with many household names and well-known artistes, some of whom became friends. And that is what life is all about, friendship and happiness. That's what matters to me anyway."
Yorkshire Coast Radio
This small group is a team I'm very proud of, its my co-directors at Yorkshire Coast Radio in Scarborough. I'm proud to have assembled the company (still opearting) which included such liuminaries as Wilf Proudfoot, the former MD of Radio 270 and twice an MP. Wilf was the main architect of the UK legilsation that launched commercial Radio. Also in the picture are his son Ian, plus Toby Horton, former MD of Radio Tees.
Our original plan was to put Yorkshire Coast Radio on a boat in Scarborough harbour and there is still a plaque on the quayside in Scarborough to the former trawler the Heatherleigh that our chairman Tom Pindar bought for the role.
Another
Radio Caroline REUNION
:
Nick Bailey, Mick Luvzit, Admiral Robbie Dale, Tommy Vance, Keith Hampshire, Johnnie Walker, Keith Skues, Ronan O'Rahilly, Dave Lee Travis, Mark Sloan, Graham Gill, Tom Edwards, Paul Rusling, Graham Webb & Mike Ahern.
It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice
yet another Radio Caroline Reunion!
this time we gathered at the Grapes in Shepherd Market in Mayfair, I'm second on the left, with Roger Day, Pat Hammerton, Dick Palmer and Paul McKenna and other illustrious colleagues such as Bob Lawrence (Buzby), Martin Kayne, Patrick Starling (Child Scientist), etc.
With George Otis, CEO of Lear Jet and founder of the Voice of Hope, planning another adventure on the Radio Paradise ship.
SUCCESS
- how do you measure it?
Being well paid for doing one's job is a good and I certainly can't grumble about the amounts I've been paid in all of my work. My wife Anne and I have always worked really hard and for very long hours too. We have invariably been well rewarded, but there is something else that's much mroe important than they pay. No, its not recognition - we don't do awards and things like that.
Success comes from being HAPPY.
It's as simple as that. The key aspect of enjoying your work is ENJOYMENT. The sheer fun one can have, so that you wake up and look forward to getting up and going to work in the morning. For many years I had to be dragged away at 10 o'clock at night after a long day. I usually didnt want to go home beacuse I enjoyed my work so much. I could happilly continue working all night (and I have done done just that many times!)
The "100% energy trip" is what one of my mentors used to call it. That was dear old Chris Cary who really knew the meaning of "work hard, play hard".
But its also working with your idols. People whose work you admire, and then you get to work with them. It's a great feeling to learn 'at the knee' of music business and broadcasting legends. It would be "shameless name dropping", to list the well-known people I've had the good fortune to work with over the years. And many more who I have simply met in the course of my work in radio - somef really well-known artistes, some who remain good friends.
With George Otis, CE of Lear Jet and founder of theVoice of Hope, planning another adventure this time on the Radio Radio Paradise ship.
Another Radio Caroline REUNION:
Nick Bailey, Mick Luvzit, Robbie Dale,Tommy Vance, Keith Hampshire, Johnnie Walker, Keith Skues, Ronan O'Rahilly, Dave Lee Travis, Mark Sloan, Graham Gill, Paul Rusling, Graham Webb .
yet another Radio Caroline Reunion!
this time we gathered at the Grapes in Shepherd Market in Mayfair, I'm second on the left, with Roger Day, Pat Hammerton, Dick Palmer and Paul McKenna and other illustrious colleagues such as Bob Lawrence (Buzby), Martin Kayne, Patrick Starling (Child Scientist), etc.
Our dear friend IMELDA REYNOLDS has been with the BBC over 25 years, in radio and TV production, in the UK and many other countries. The Queen of Media Tuition, multi-award winning Imelda is revered around the world.
Paul and Caroline International DJ BUD BALLOU,
who's now back rocking the radio in San Diego.
with the legendary PETER CHICAGO
(who kept Radio Caroline
on the air for over two decades)
At Radio 10 with a Caroline stalwart, RICHARD JACKSON (middle) and (right) my dear pal, former Radio Monique & Radio 10 journalist and now the head of two top Dutch radio stations 100% NL and Radio 10, world radio expert HERBERT VISSER
Pic by Andrew Work
Paul and an old Caroline colleague BUD BALLOU
who returned to the States and KGO news in California