Steve Wright

Stephen Richard Wright MBE (26 August 1954 – 12 February 2024) was an English disc jockey, radio personality, and occasional television presenter, credited with introducing the zoo format on British radio, known for its zany, multi-personality approach. He presented Steve Wright in the Afternoon for 12 years on BBC Radio 1 and 23 years on BBC Radio 2, two of the BBC's national radio stations, the latter being the most popular station in the United Kingdom, ending on 30 September 2022. He continued to present his Sunday Love Songs weekend mid-morning show on Radio 2 until his death, and in October 2023, he took over as the host of Pick of the Pops from Paul Gambaccini. On BBC Television, Wright hosted Home Truths, The Steve Wright People Show, Auntie's TV Favourites, Top of the Pops and TOTP2. Wright won awards, including Best DJ of the Year as voted by the Daily Mirror Readers Poll and by Smash Hits in 1994. In 1998 he was awarded TRIC Personality of the Year for his radio programmes.
==Links to Peel==
Peel would often mention Steve Wright on his shows, even admitting listening to his programmes. However, Peel and Wright weren't close friends and he would often complain about Steve undermining his radio programmes. 
==Mentioned On Shows==
;1981
*19 May 1981: Peel notes that his fellow DJ Steve Wright is the man at the station for doing impersonations, but admits that he can never tell who he's supposed to be taking off.
;1982
*17 July 1982: (JP: 'An interesting thing about when you listen to 78s of old music hall comedians from the 20s and 30s is that all of them are deeply and desperately unfunny, or most of them are, anyway. Makes Steve Wright seem positively gifted.')
;1983
*14 March 1983: John and Kid were down at the pub at lunchtime and John had to make a brief contribution to Steve Wright's programme
;1984
*21 May 1984: Wonders why the "stars" of Radio 1 never turn out for the charity football events (Simon Bates, Steve Wright etc)
;1985
*31 December 1985: (JP: 'There was a nice thing on the television, we're not gonna do a Steve Wright and recommend you watch television and don't listen to the radio but er the drummer from Madness had on his drumkit something like Happy New Year Basildon')
;1988
*09 May 1988: (JP: 'This is from Napalm Death and I understand that Steve Wright has been playing tracks from the Extreme Noise Terror EP from Strange Fruit, which is gratifying. I think he thinks it's quite funny really but gratifying nevertheless because there might be one or two people who think, actually this is a lot better than the muck he's been playing recently. So from Napalm Death, perhaps he start playing this as well, we can but hope')
*25 May 1988: Peel mentions he's heard Steve Wright playing the Timelords' Doctorin' The Tardis on his afternoon show. The song later reached number 1 in the UK singles chart.
*27 December 1988: (JP: "I had one of those embarrassing experiences when a friend of mine came into the studio earlier this evening for the first time, and I always say to people, and I've said it on countless occasions, watching somebody doing a radio programme is not terrifically...actually, if you watch Steve Wright, it's spectacular because he does a lot, you know, but watching me is rather like watching somebody typing, and I always know that within a few moments, after about twenty minutes or so, people are going to begin looking around the studio, and sure enough, within about twenty minutes, he was reading Bruno Brookes' Christmas cards stuck up on the windows around here and so forth. He's gone now, I'll be a sadder and a wiser man.")
;1989
*20 March 1989: Peel describing Steve Wright as the Mike Yarwood of Radio 1
*21 September 1989: Peel mentioned that Steve Wright when introducing other programmes would go in greater detail, but when it came to his show, Wright only said, '8.30 John Peel'.
*08 November 1989: (JP: 'As heard on the Steve Wright programme only yesterday afternoon, and somebody reminded me yesterday that I'd said if I ever heard Inspiral Carpets on Steve Wright's programme, I'd play the Pet Shop Boys on this programme. Well I'm not going to, at least not tonight anyway.')
;1992
*08 February 1992: : JP: "I made the mistake of answering the Fluff line before the programme because these days you still tend to get an awful lot of people who think that Steve Wright kind of lives in this room and they get quite irate when you say, look he's not here, actually. He's probably at home watching television or asleep."
;1993
*05 April 1993 (John Peel Is Jakki Brambles): (JP: 'Gary Davies (is) limbering up in the adjoining studio because he's sitting in for Steve Wright this week and of course I'm John Peel, I'm sitting in for Jakki Brambles. I've got one more record to play you. It requires a bit of explanation really, because I know it's an amazingly stupid thing to say that somebody is the best guitarist in the world, but if there is such a person it could well be Diblo Dibala, who's based in Paris, comes originally I think from Zaire. He used to be in a band called Loketo and the track I'm going to play you now features some of the most astonishing guitar playing I've ever heard in my entire life.')
*20 August 1993: Peel complained on his programme that when listening to Steve Wright, his posse mentioned about what TV programmes are worth watching during Peel's programme. Peel replied stating that he would look at the Radio Times and see what programmes are worth watching during Steve Wright's programme.
;2002
*07 November 2002: Although he hasn't been sent the Nirvana album, Peel opens his mail during the programme and discovers that he's been sent a copy of "Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs: The New Collection". JP: "That's a small consolation to us, anyway."
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Radio Rewind
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