RIP Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman

You made the Top 40 countdown the single most exciting piece of radio in the UK – every week for thirty years.

You said Not ‘Arf and Pop Pickers rather a lot.

You genuinely loved the music you played. Unlike, say, JK and Joel.

Speaking of whom, you would never have spent a cringeworthy five minutes trying to chat up Nelly Furtado – every single bloody time she was on the show.

But then, she probably isn’t that into wooly jumpers.

You were the only Radio 1 DJ who was simultaneously friends with John Peel and Noel Edmonds.

You pulled off the feat of making a piece of swing band music the calling card for the world’s most exciting rock and roll music chart.
Proof:

You will be missed.

PS: Read a proper obituary at No Rock and Roll Fun.