Janice Long Remembered (GHR)

**Janice Long Remembered** - Greatest Hits Radio.

Date: 25 December 2022

Source: GHR

## Notes

* Exactly a year on since we lost Janice Long, last Christmas Day, we remember the legacy of a broadcasting pioneer and Greatest Hits Radio presenter.

## Tracklisting

Show presented by Alex Lester.
Intro by AL with audio snippets

* Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (Janice tells of how she first heard it when flying through a tornado in the US).

Brief biographical background of Janice, pre-broadcasting. Collage of archive recordings (*Streetlife*, Radio 1, TOTP, Live Aid..)

* The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

Paul Gambaccini talks about how he met JL.

Archive recording of Janice on Radio 1 Saturday evening show and introducing

* Joe Jackson - Stepping Out

* The Cure - Inbetween Days

Paul Gambaccini again - speaks of JL's enthusiasm and sincerity.
Carl Hunter bass player in The Farm spoken tribute.

* The Farm - All Together Now

Live Aid - Janice was the only female presenter. Midge Ure remembers the day. recording of Janice also remembering the day, in tears with Tony Hadley.

* Status Quo - Rockin' All Over the World (live, 1985)
* OMD - Souvenir

Neil Arthur spoken tribute

* Blancmange - Living On the Ceiling

Jackie Brambles spoken tribute.

* Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump It Up

Jackie Brambles speaks again.

JL introducing Wham! on TOTP

* Wham! - Wake Me Up Before you Go-Go

JL talks about TOTP - introducing U2 on her first show proper.

Alex Lester spoken tribute. Talks bout J's anecdote abour Kirsty MacColl visiting her house and ending up smashing all the plates.

* Kirsty McColl - New England

Mark Goodier spoken tribute.

Nasher from FGTH remembers JL playing demo version of relax on Streetlife.

* FGTH - Relax

Mark Goodier again. Recalls the All About Eve incident on TOTP in 1988, and a live gig in Hyde Park.

* OMD - Electricity

Mark King spoken tribute.

* Level 42 - The Sun Goes down (Livin It Up)

Janice recalls the Tom Jones live concert she attended in Liverpool as a girl, and meeting Tom Jones again much later (see page).

* Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual

Rusy Egan recalls hanging out with JL amd tribute.

* Visage - Fade to Grey

JL recalls George Michael and attending his 30th birthday party

* George Michael - Fastlove
* Simple Minds - Waterfront

Steve White - drummer with The Style Council spoken tribute. Mentions they met when theband were on TOTP, again at Live Aid and 'a few short weeks ago' after the death of Charlie Watts

* The Style Council - Shout to the Top

Richard Allinson spoken tribute and recalling meeting her at Ronnie Scott's.

Janice first introducing Amy Winehouse on radio.

* Amy Winehouse - You're No Good

AL introduces final hour - says he will be talking to family.

* The Stranglers - Golden Brown
* Kirsty McColl - Thank you for the Days

AL recalls her first record was The Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar. Archive recording of JL telling off how she was received the phone call to go meet the band in Philedelphia "peeling potatoes and watching watching Paul bouncing up and down on the trampline". First interview with members then live gig - then driven away in a convoy with the band.

* The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

Paul speaks. First meeting at a party. Paul knew PA driver. Fell in love oer a weekend.

* The Cure - Lovesong (the song the two walked down the aisle to with Paul)
* Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Stephen Duffy spoken tribute. (on TOTP on his 25th birthday - 30 May?)

* Stephen Duffy - Kiss Me

Paul speaks again. Talk about Janice's voice and interest in popular culture. Mention Jim Kerr and Elvis Costello. She never had a 'favourite genre'.

* N-trance - Set You Free ("a non-indie single Janice loved")
* The Specials - A Message to You Rudy

Simon Mayo spoken tribute.

* Wah! - The Story of the Blues

Paul speaks again - talks about their children. Children Fred and Blue mentioned.

* U2 - With or Without You (Janice recalls listening to the whole album The Joshua Tree with Paul, learning and playing the songs in the woods in Hungerford).

Paul emotional outpouring, "I've lost my other half". Considers himself lucky to have known Janice for as long as he did.
Programme closure by Lester.

* Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (repeat) intro over JL's final radio broadcast closure