Radio 1 launches

"And good morning everyone," it began. "Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1." Tony Blackburn was sitting in the breakfast show chair and the first record he spun was Flowers in the Rain by the Move, followed by the Bee Gees with Massachusetts. Smashing. Other DJs on the fledgling station, launched simultaneously with Radio 2, included Kenny Everett and Simon Dee, both of whom, like Blackburn, had cut their teeth on the pirate stations. Much else followed.