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Alan Leslie Freeman MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006), nicknamed "Fluff", was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting Pick of the Pops from 1961 to 2000.
About Alan. It was 1957 when Australian born Alan Freeman came to Britain for the holiday that lasted more than 40 years. He’d been working as an announcer on Melbourne’s 3KZ, and as Rock n Roll increasingly hit the airwaves, he arrived ‘to do Europe’.
Alan Freeman, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, Business School, Department Member. Studies History, Modern History, and Cultural History. Alan Freeman was a principal economist with the Greater London Authority from 2000 to 2011.
Australian Alan (“Fluff”) Freeman was an announcer on Melbourne’s 3KZ when he visited the United Kingdom on vacation in 1957; he stayed on to become one of British radio’s most distinctive and durable broadcasters.
Alan 'Fluff' Freeman MBE (born July 1927 - died Nov 2006) Alan 'Fluff' Freeman was already a radio announcer (and occasional singer) in Melbourne, when, in 1957, he took a holiday in the UK that stretched into a broadcasting career lasting more than forty years.
Jan 23, 2024 · In 1961 Alan 'Fluff' Freeman took over as the host of the BBC Radio's 'Pick of the Pops' and changed music broadcasting forever.
Alan Freeman, one of the UK's best-loved broadcasters, has died peacefully at his London home after a brief illness. Alan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1927 and came to Britain in...
