Lord Tim Hudson

George Timothy Hudson ( Brumwell; 11 February 1940 – 14 December 2019), widely known as Lord Tim Hudson, was an English DJ. He worked in Los Angeles for KFWB during the mid-1960s and was the manager of The Seeds and The Lollipop Shoppe. He was also a voice actor, an artist and a sports manager, notably of the cricketer Ian Botham. served in Bomber Command in World War II and died in a raid over Belgium in 1944. In 1948, his widowed mother married Henry Hudson, who owned a cotton business. When The Beatles embarked on their 1965 North American concert tour, radio station KCBQ in San Diego employed Hudson. He described himself as a record producer who claimed to know The Beatles personally, and to have helped discover the Moody Blues. Hudson made broadcasts publicising the band's appearances in the San Diego area. Using his contacts in England, Hudson managed to get permission to travel with the group before their concert in San Diego, and to file reports to be aired exclusively on KCBQ. Nonetheless, Hudson was able to land a high-profile evening slot on KFWB-Los Angeles that lasted for approximately a year and a half (1965–66). In March 1966, Hudson presented singer Nancy Sinatra with a gold disc to mark her million seller "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". However, as the actual gold record had failed to arrive in time from New York, Hudson had to present Sinatra with the similarly earned disc of Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody"; at one point, Hudson was engaged to Martin's daughter. In the early 1970s, he invested in property in Hollywood, remarried, and set up what he claimed was the first organic food restaurant in Hollywood. Later in the decade he had a radio show, Hudson's Theater of the Mind, on non-commercial station KXLU. Hudson hosted celebrity cricket matches at the ground, known as the "Birtles Bowl", throughout the 1980s; he later sold both the house and the cricket ground.

In 1990, Hudson moved back to the U.S., and lived in Palm Springs, California. Some of his paintings have been exhibited, and he continued to work as a radio DJ.

He died after heart surgery on 14 December 2019. Hudson was married four times, with three divorces. He was married to Maxi Gordon Silver from the late 1970s until her death, and had a daughter from his second marriage.

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