Talk:Tony Blackburn

message: Is the fact that he is switching on the folkstone xmas lights actually a piece of info that everyone wants to know about? Fair enough that the people of Folkstone & surrounding areas may be interested, this is a world wide encyclopaedia, so someone in Vancouver for instance may not really care about that. Just my view. 88.108.170.60 (talk) 22:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted, I have removed. Thanks, SqueakBox 22:56, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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message: Maybe the article should mention his appearances as presenter of the BBC TV "Top of the Pops" show in the 70s and 80s. 
I also remember him having his own TV Chat show (It might have been daily) on the original Sky Television channel in the 1980s. Can anyone verify this and add it in properly? 82.152.44.250 (talk) 23:28, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV career 

message: He is Currently presenter of BBC London 94.9 'Soul on Sunday' http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d6zx 12pm-3pm Sundays. This needs to be added to the to the 'Media offices' table on the main page but I don't know how to. Can someone please do it? 212.159.79.211 (talk) 16:42, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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message: After his wife left him in the mid-70s, Tony Blackburn famously spent his whole show crying on air and playing "If You Leave Me Now" over and over - is this something that should be mentioned in the article? It seems fairly noteworthy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.173.71 (talk) 09:05, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crying on air 

message: I just have one question.
Why is nothing written in the article about Tony Blackburn about his work at BFBS?
After all, Tony presented the show "Soulstation" there in the middle of the 80s.
Should the article be revised in this regard?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.187.120.173 (talk) 10:43, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
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message: Somewhat surprising this article has survived so long with no source for his date of birth. BBC here has 1943. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:41, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are a couple of book sources: Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations and Historical Dictionary of British Radio Martinevans123 (talk) 10:57, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: A search at FreeBMD for any Blackburn born between 1939 and 1945 reveals none with middle initial K, none with mother's name of Cubitt or Stone, and none born anywhere near Surrey. This seems a bit odd. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:01, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a blog source (so not reliable) but looks very well-researched: . Martinevans123 (talk) 10:33, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

message: His birth name is Anthony Kenneth Blackburn. That is clear from primary sources such as the GRO Civil Registration Birth Index, and is also the name under which he was married in 1972.  (These are public documents, available from subscription-based sites like Ancestry.com.)  However, the Oxford Reference here does give his name as simply Kenneth Blackburn.  It is a so-called "reliable source" - but it's clearly wrong on this occasion.  We shouldn't base the opening sentence of the article, especially one about a notable living person, on a single, wrong, source - but what alternative, accurate, secondary sources would editors suggest?   Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:23, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: GoogleSearchBooks suggests his autobiography, but there is no snippet view for me. Does anyone have a copy? (Might also be good idea to mention those book on the article!) Martinevans123 (talk) 13:55, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure autobiographies are necessarily reliable though...  Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh no. I've heard that somewhere before. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:53, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

text: Maybe the spelling correction does make a difference.  Here's the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cppr1 - and here's the National Portrait Gallery - https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp84181/antony-kenneth-tony-blackburn.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:53, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

text: Yes, here he is at FreeBMD: . That NPG source looks good enough to me. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:58, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: this source has now disappeared. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:34, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth name 

message: We have only the  currently used two at Commons. While the lead image is quite good, there is that awkward hand clashing thing going on. Here are two possible flickr candidates, copyright permitting:  and . Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:51, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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