Yes he was. Coincidentally I was thinking of starting a Radio Luxembourg thread (208) to see how many members would admit to remembering their introduction to rock and roll music, pre pirate radio days! 😀

Sounds like a good thread to me, shall I start my bit.
Sunday night used to be family night in our house, now I’m talking about the days before Fluff used to present the top twenty on a sunday evening.
We would have to put up with Sing Something Simple on the Light Programme, incidentally if anyone remembers that dire programme, the Mike Sammes Singers that ‘performed’ it featured as backing vocals on ‘I am the Walrus’ by the Beatles, so they obviously weren’t as boring as we thought.
We usually played Monopoly, or various card games and looked forward to Radio Luxembourg starting at 7:00, but where I lived, reception was always appalling, despite my old man’s massive valve radio that resembled some sort of art deco cinema frontage.
The music on Luxembourg was great, the only programme playing anything like it on the BBC was Saturday Club. Elvis was not appreciated in our house, Buddy Holly was King, I would have been interested to see what would have happened had BH not suffered an early demise, his advantage over Elvis was his writing ability, a sad loss of a great talent, my brother didn’t speak for several days following his death.
We also had problems picking up the pirate stations as well, we tended to stick with Luxembourg as reception had improved and Radio 1 when it first arrived was not too good as they had to honour live performance rights and had all sorts of grim people attempting to perform the hits of the day live on air. I think that the only programme free of this nonsense was actually Alan Freemans chart show.
I did win a competition on Luxembourg once, this was in the days of Kid Jensen, ( whose party I once crashed and was evicted from as I quoted my invite as being from a rival DJ who was also not on the list, got my hands on a glass of his scotch though).
Yes, the Kid ran a competition called ‘Find the Flip’. I happened to be upstairs doing my homework and listening to Luxembourg and the flip side in question was on my record player, Badge by the Cream as it happens.
I wrote down the answer on a piece of toilet paper including all the credits and the fact that George Harrison played the middle eight.
Several days later I was surrounded by hordes of admiring girls at school who had heard my name read out on air, I missed it.
I was sent a copy of an album courtesy of Radio Luxembourg with an actual hand written note by Kid Jensen, the album was by a band called ‘Moves of Vegetable Centuries’, cool, it ended up being destroyed under a chair leg at a particularly wild party.
I have to go back to Saturday Club, it was the best radio show around, nothing on Lux or anywhere else could touch it.
As I mentioned earlier they did experimental stereo broadcasts where you tuned in the radio to one frequency and the telly to another, unfortunately our telly was sat over the radio so you had to lie at an angle to appreciate it.
One day some company, it may have been PYE announced that they were going to do an experimental broadcast of Saturday Club in 4 track at the Co-op showrooms in Nottingham. Of course we were down there like a shot and sat in the middle of these gleaming massive teak cabinets for several hours on a saturday morning while engineers fiddled with whatever they had to fiddle with, it was amazing and no doubt better than the awful but expensive system that I have now.
Not Arf, pop pickers.