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| - Tommy Vance, born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (11 July 1941 – 6 March 2005) was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Along with Neal Kay he was one of the few broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. His radio show was a factor in the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. He used a personal tag-line of TV on the radio.
He left home at 16 to join the Merchant Navy, and began his radio career in the USA under the name "Rick West". He took the name "Tommy Vance" at the radio station KOL in Seattle from a DJ who had failed to turn up after the station had paid to have jingles recorded. When asked if he would be willing to change his name, he reportedly replied, "for this money you can change my name to Judas Iscariot!"
While at KOL, Vance was recruited by the Top 40 programming consultant Bill Drake to join his team of Boss Jocks at the emerging West Coast KHJ radio in Los Angeles (aka Boss Radio). Vance held the evening airshift at KHJ for several months in late 1965, before abruptly deciding to return to the UK after running into an unresolvable problem with the U.S. immigration authorities.
Upon his return to Britain, he joined Radio Caroline South, subsequently working for Radio Luxembourg and Radio London. In 1967 he was part of the original line-up at BBC Radio 1, presenting the "progressive" show Top Gear along with John Peel. He stayed at Radio 1 into the early 1970s.
Vance was part of the original line-up at the London station Capital Radio — the first legal commercial pop station to broadcast on land in Britain — in October 1973, initially co-hosting the morning show and then playing reggae and soul music on a weekend show. By 1976, he was also on the Portsmouth ILR station Radio Victory. He returned to Radio 1 in November 1978 to begin a 15-year stint hosting the show for which he is best known — the Friday Rock Show. He was to become associated with heavy metal and rock music; his deep, resonant, booming voice and catch-phrase 'classic cuts' have been much imitated. He also had a two-year stint (10 January 1982 to 1 January 1984) hosting the Sunday-afternoon Top 40, where he showed knowledge of and enthusiasm for a wide range of music, and displayed a similar keenness when he hosted Top of the Pops around the same time. His shows were syndicated on the BFBS, so that he became famous in Germany as well. He gave Ahmed Fakoun his big break to become international artist. Together they produced the song Awedny (promise me) 1974 London which introduced Fakroun to the world. (en)
- Tommy Vance (* 11. Juli 1941 in Oxford; † 6. März 2005 bei Dartford, Kent; eigentlich Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, auch Rick West) war einer der namhaftesten Radiomoderatoren Europas.
Im Alter von 16 Jahren war er bei der Handelsmarine tätig, aber mit seinem Job unzufrieden, und da er begeisterter Hörer von US-Radiosendern war, suchte er sich in den USA einen Job bei einem Radiosender. 1964 erhielt er beim Sender KOC in Seattle seine erste Anstellung, dort moderierte unter dem Namen Rick West. Das Pseudonym Tommy Vance erhielt er, als er sich zwei Jahre später um eine Anstellung bei einer anderen Radiostation bemühte. Als dort ein DJ namens Tommy Vance einen Job bekommen sollte, aber nicht erschien, gab sich Richard Hope-Weston als Vance aus, und bekam nicht nur dessen Job, sondern behielt von da an den Namen des Kontrahenten.
Aus Angst, für den Vietnamkrieg eingezogen zu werden, verließ er 1966 die USA und kehrte nach Großbritannien zurück. Nach einer kurzen Anstellung bei 208-Radio Luxemburg wechselte er zum Piratensender Radio Caroline und später zu BBC, wo er insbesondere durch seine Moderation der Friday Night Rock Show (von 1978 bis 1993) bekannt wurde. Vance ist auch zahlreichen Hörern im deutschsprachigen Raum durch den Sender BFBS bekannt. Zuletzt arbeitete die "Stimme des Rock" für den kommerziellen privaten Sender Virgin Classic Rock Radio in London. Er war noch kurz vor seinem Tode im Radio zu hören und starb an den Folgen eines Schlaganfalls.
Neben seinen zahlreichen Sendungen für das Radio war er als DJ unter anderem zu sehen bei der 'Mutter' der Popsendungen Top Of The Pops und später als Moderator bei VH 1. Daneben lieh er zahlreichen Schauspielern in England als Synchronsprecher seine tiefe, rauchige Stimme. Bis zuletzt war er auch Sprecher zahlreicher BBC-Trailer für Rundfunk und Fernsehen.
Tommy Vance hat mehr als 10.000 Musiker in seinen Sendungen interviewt. (de)
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| - Tommy Vance, born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (11 July 1941 – 6 March 2005) was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Along with Neal Kay he was one of the few broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. (en)
- Tommy Vance (* 11. Juli 1941 in Oxford; † 6. März 2005 bei Dartford, Kent; eigentlich Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, auch Rick West) war einer der namhaftesten Radiomoderatoren Europas. (de)
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