Brian Matthew

[Martin Payne]

Very Sad to hear that Brian Matthew passed away today at age 88. Big part of my musical youth, Saturday Club being almost mandatory listening in it’s heyday and of course he hosted Sounds of the 60’s for very many years until quite recently. I’ve got some Saturday Club recordings on reel to reel that I should drag up and have a listen to again.

RIP Brian.

[362436]

Sad news indeed.
Spent many enjoyable hours listening to Saturday Club whilst living in Liverpool.
Sympathy to all his family,friends and fans.
Ian.

[bgohara]

Yes indeed - sorry to hear this news. Does anyone have the interview he did with Hank & Bruce around the time of the final tour - 2004? I would love to hear this again. Thanks, Bernie

[dave robinson]

Brian Matthew was one of the very best from our musical youth through to only a few months ago on radio. RIP Brian.

[Uncle Fiesta]

As a ten-year-old in the early '60s I would accompany my parents on their weekly shopping trip to Gainsborough and the car radio was always on. On the way there we'd catch the last 20 minutes or so of Children's Favourites with Uncle Mac (later to become Junior Choice with Ed Stewpot). I never went shopping with my parents; I'd stay in the car to listen to the rest of the programme, because Saturday Club followed it at 10.

I remember one historical event from that period; a telephone interview Brian did with the Beatles not long after they landed in New York for their first US tour, then another a couple of weeks later after they had arrived back at Heathrow. Both these were recorded, and replayed on the programme. (I believe this was around February of 1964; I'm sure someone will correct me if it wasn't!) A transatlantic phone call was state of the art in those days, satellite TV links being very much in their infancy, as anyone who remembers the quality of the pictures from the Tokyo Olympics later that year will recall.

[Fenderman]

Yes indeed - sorry to hear this news. Does anyone have the interview he did with Hank & Bruce around the time of the final tour - 2004? I would love to hear this again. Thanks, Bernie

I have it somewhere as i digitised all my cassettes a few years ago but i've just moved house and have no idea where they are amongst the chaos.
I digitised a lot of Sounds of the 60's tracks. Some didn't quite turn out right!

[kipper]

that voice will be sadly missed. right up to a couple months ago I was listening to him on Saturday morning best dj of my time thank my lucky stars. rip Brian.

[Mikey]

A sad loss. I thought he'd go on forever.

[neil2726]

One of the top DJ/presenters of our time. He concentrated on the music and not his own ego, unlike many of todays DJs.
He will be sadly missed! RCIP

[Uncleboko]

Very Sad to hear that Brian Matthew passed away today at age 88. Big part of my musical youth, Saturday Club being almost mandatory listening in it’s heyday and of course he hosted Sounds of the 60’s for very many years until quite recently. I’ve got some Saturday Club recordings on reel to reel that I should drag up and have a listen to again.

RIP Brian.

Very sad indeed, You don't have by any chance the Rolling Stones session broadcast on 18 April 1964, including Hi Heeled Sneekers and Beautiful Delilah? I manage to build a complete version of Hi Heeled Sneekers from various sources, listen to it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7boykyobliu3 ... b.wav?dl=0

but that illusive first few seconds of Beautiful Delilah has never surfaced. The trouble was that I like many others, had my reel to reel in pause record until a session song was announced, then quickly released the pause button - unfortunately sometimes Brian did his announcement after the music had started!