One of the few Radio 1 DJs I listened to in my childhood – mainly due to her pushing punk and new wave when it was current.
RIP Annie, thanks for bringing my music to me, and thanks for being a consistent voice of my formative years.
Oh that’s awful news. I used to love listening her when I was younger and all the special events she did for TV and radio.
First met Annie backstage at Fabric around 2005 at a breakbeat awards ceremony there, we talk briefly about the British rave scene and breakbeat itself ( she was a big supporter and fan of this scene, played lots of our music ) Met her a few times after, she always said hello.
Trailblazer and absolute legend for sure really. Sad. RIP.
Oh that’s sad news… I can still vividly remember sitting in my bedroom in the dark listening to her annual Halloween Special on Sunday nights in the early eighties.. She played all ten minutes of Martin by Soft Cell and I was eating a Ski yoghurt.
Edit: Not my content but here’s the Halloween Special from ’84 for anyone that wishes to get a bit teary-eyed and nostalgic.
A reminder that we don’t have to stop being cool as we grow older.
Ah no, that’s so sad.
I had the privilige to assist Annie at a disco in the late 1980s, she was such a wonderful performer, she gave a show that was beyond expectations – at one point donning a leotard and a Maggie Thatcher mask. Boundless energy and endless joy.
This is one celebrity I will mourn – and I’ll listen to some Bauhaus tonight, something I’ll always associate with her.
A shame, but what a career. Never lost her love for music and broadcasting, and had an impact on so many listeners.
I hand no idea she was 83! But equally I know she’s a been around for ever.
For those of us up at Stupid O’Clock in the 90s it was her time and never disappointed.
Not from the UK so first time I ever heard of her was from Annie Nightingale Post-Glastonbury 02-07-2007. An amazing set I still use when I go running. RIP Annie.
I never really listened to her, I was a bit too young I think, but heard her name a hell of a lot, especially as I used to listen to Radio 1 pretty religiously growing up. A very sad loss and a true trailblazer!
Fancy staying on Radio 1 for fifty years. She’s seen so many others come and go. RIP Annie, will miss that voice.
Am genuinely choked at this. Trailblazer is exactly what she was – first female dj on Radio One, where she stayed for many years, no doubt making her the eldest disc spinner with a thirst for new music right to the end.
As a teenager I loved her request show, the only show I absolutely couldn’t miss at a time when alternative and less commercial music was seldom aired on the station. She introduced me to so much and helped to shape my music tastes, which since then have changed very little. And where else would you hear tracks such as Fish Heads by Barnes and Barnes, Frontier Psychiatrist and They’re Coming to Take me away (ha ha)?
RIP and many thanks you absolute legend x
Absolute legend. Listening to her request show after the Top 40 on a Sunday at 7 in the 80’s was a must do. C120 in the tape machine and let it run.
She used to do a Sunday evening show before John Peel and I remember listening to that and her sexy voice.
Ive listened to Annie since the early 90’s when I first got into music, RIP to a proper radio legend that championed so many artists and genres
Thanks Annie for playing Little Fluffy Clouds not long after the Top40 so I’d start listening to some proper decent shit
I remember listening to one of her sets from Glastonbury many years ago on repeat, it was fire. RIP Annie
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What a career. RIP Annie.
One of the few Radio 1 DJs I listened to in my childhood – mainly due to her pushing punk and new wave when it was current.
RIP Annie, thanks for bringing my music to me, and thanks for being a consistent voice of my formative years.
Oh that’s awful news. I used to love listening her when I was younger and all the special events she did for TV and radio.
First met Annie backstage at Fabric around 2005 at a breakbeat awards ceremony there, we talk briefly about the British rave scene and breakbeat itself ( she was a big supporter and fan of this scene, played lots of our music ) Met her a few times after, she always said hello.
Trailblazer and absolute legend for sure really. Sad. RIP.
Oh that’s sad news… I can still vividly remember sitting in my bedroom in the dark listening to her annual Halloween Special on Sunday nights in the early eighties.. She played all ten minutes of Martin by Soft Cell and I was eating a Ski yoghurt.
Edit: Not my content but here’s the Halloween Special from ’84 for anyone that wishes to get a bit teary-eyed and nostalgic.
https://www.mixcloud.com/colin-hayes3/annie-nightingale-request-show-28th-october-1984-halloween/
A reminder that we don’t have to stop being cool as we grow older.
Ah no, that’s so sad.
I had the privilige to assist Annie at a disco in the late 1980s, she was such a wonderful performer, she gave a show that was beyond expectations – at one point donning a leotard and a Maggie Thatcher mask. Boundless energy and endless joy.
This is one celebrity I will mourn – and I’ll listen to some Bauhaus tonight, something I’ll always associate with her.
A shame, but what a career. Never lost her love for music and broadcasting, and had an impact on so many listeners.
I hand no idea she was 83! But equally I know she’s a been around for ever.
For those of us up at Stupid O’Clock in the 90s it was her time and never disappointed.
Not from the UK so first time I ever heard of her was from Annie Nightingale Post-Glastonbury 02-07-2007. An amazing set I still use when I go running. RIP Annie.
I never really listened to her, I was a bit too young I think, but heard her name a hell of a lot, especially as I used to listen to Radio 1 pretty religiously growing up. A very sad loss and a true trailblazer!
Fancy staying on Radio 1 for fifty years. She’s seen so many others come and go. RIP Annie, will miss that voice.
Am genuinely choked at this. Trailblazer is exactly what she was – first female dj on Radio One, where she stayed for many years, no doubt making her the eldest disc spinner with a thirst for new music right to the end.
As a teenager I loved her request show, the only show I absolutely couldn’t miss at a time when alternative and less commercial music was seldom aired on the station. She introduced me to so much and helped to shape my music tastes, which since then have changed very little. And where else would you hear tracks such as Fish Heads by Barnes and Barnes, Frontier Psychiatrist and They’re Coming to Take me away (ha ha)?
RIP and many thanks you absolute legend x
Absolute legend. Listening to her request show after the Top 40 on a Sunday at 7 in the 80’s was a must do. C120 in the tape machine and let it run.
She used to do a Sunday evening show before John Peel and I remember listening to that and her sexy voice.
Ive listened to Annie since the early 90’s when I first got into music, RIP to a proper radio legend that championed so many artists and genres
Thanks Annie for playing Little Fluffy Clouds not long after the Top40 so I’d start listening to some proper decent shit
I remember listening to one of her sets from Glastonbury many years ago on repeat, it was fire. RIP Annie