About Alan Black
Lived 1943 – 2007 (aged 64). Alan Black was a British radio personality.
Alan Black (15 January 1943 – 5 March 2007) was known as one of the presenters of BBC's Sounds of the Seventies.
After having worked as a disc jockey for a series of commercial radio stations in the mid-1960s, Black joined the BBC in July 1968, with a programme on BBC Radio 1: Midday Spin. He also presented In Concert, on BBC Radio 1, the What's New programme and Radio 1's Sounds of the Seventies, with Anne Nightingale.
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Who was Alan Black?
broadcaster
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Alan Black was born on 15 January 1943.
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Alan Black died on 5 March 2007.
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Alan Black was a radio personality.
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Alan Black was British.
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