Kenny Everett

Maverick disc jockey and comedian Kenny Everett’s headlong broadcasting style broke established rules and outraged establishment figures for years. He made his name on the pirate station Radio London, before joining Radio 1 in September 1967. He subsequently joined London’s Capital Radio, the first independent commercial music station, and started developing some of the characters later made famous by television. His shows were a breathless whirlwind of music, gags, jingles and vignettes, and transferred to television in 1978 with Thames Television’s "The Kenny Everett Video Show," spawning the spin-off album, CAPTAIN KREMMEN (GREATEST ADVENTURE YET) (1980). The show transferred to the BBC in 1982 as "The Kenny Everett Television Show," lasting until 1988. Everett worked right up to his death of an AIDS-related illness in 1995.