Annie Nightingale, the first female DJ on BBC Radio 1, has passed away at the age of 83 at her home in London.
Beloved BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale has passed away. First reported by BBC and Billboard earlier today, she died yesterday at her home in London after a short illness. She was 83.
Born in Osterley, Middlesex, England, in 1940, Annie Nightingale had worked in television as a reporter for South Today, BBC’s Southampton and Bristol-based news program in the ’60s before taking a leap into the music realm as a pop music columnist. In the later years of the decade, she became inspired to be a disc jockey after…