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Farewell, Johnnie Walker

AddicksAddict
AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
in Not Sports Related
His last-ever Sounds of the 70s was on Radio 2 to-day. Seems he has cancer. 

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  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,626
    edited October 2024
    It is not cancer but is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a severe respiratory illness that can make breathing very difficult. I met him about 3 years ago at an interval in a  concert, we got chatting and ended up telling each other  about his IPF and my MS - quite surreal and a lovely man
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    Lovely guy. I've followed his career since the 60's. He did have cancer but fought back and beat it, but this IPF is one step to far for him now. A great loss to the radio airwaves.
    Enjoy your well deserved retirement Mr Walker, and thanks for the music x
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    A really good DJ (Radio 2 has been losing a few in recent times and will lose more sooner rather than later, naturally enough, given their age profile and mortality).

    Mind you, Radio 2 have also lost a fair few with strange managerial/funding decisions (he said, staring in Alex Lester).

    Johnny Walker will be missed.
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,587
    edited December 2024
    RIP...Just announced by Bob Harris....on R2.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    RIP Johnnie.
  • ecclesaddick
    ecclesaddick Posts: 390
    R.I.P Johnnie
    An all time great.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    RIP.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    RIP Johnnie. Kept me entertained for many Sunday afternoons over the years. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,778
    RIP Johnnie  
  • Phil
    Phil Posts: 612
    Very sad news. A legend of a broadcaster. What a career he had. Always played such good music. Sounds of the Seventies was wonderful featuring superb interviews and tracks you'd almost forgotten about. RIP.
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  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    Gutted, I followed Johnnie throughout his career. One of the all-time DJ greats. 
    His love of music was only surpassed by his love of his wife 'Tiggy'.
    A very sad day.....RIP sir and thankyou for the decades of music xx
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,626
    oh no not Johnnie Walker, met him once a lovely guy whose death fills me with tears
    RIP the greatest of DJs and of men
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,679
    RIP Johnnie, the man with the silky smooth voice. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Quite a loss, but be thankful for all the years of entertainment he gave us.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    RIP Johnnie. A name from my childhood.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    Thankyou Johnny for the music and the stories ..that's how to be a DJ ..RIP
  • WrightCharlie
    WrightCharlie Posts: 742
    The music he played and his lovely voice have been a part of my life for a long time. So sad to hear he's gone.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    RIP. Fine Disc Jockey over many years.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,105
    RIP Johnnie. One of the best DJ's that this country has produced. Will raise a glass tonight in your memory. 
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  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited December 2024
    Used to admire his lunchtime Radio 1 show, we all used to listen to the chartshow during break at school, and remember that he refused to play the Bay City Rollers because they were dreadful.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    Superb DJ, top bloke.
    RIP Johnnie.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,622
    For many years our Sunday afternoon dog walks were - in the car, there and back - backdropped by ‘Sound of the 70’s’, with Johnnie Walker - velvet voice, musical tastes arrowing in on mine 

    RIP my radio friend 
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,906
    RIP one of the best
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    RIP Johnnie
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    One of the best DJs. RIP Johnnie

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