36 Facts About Eddie Gordon

Eddie Gordon was educated at Cecil Road Infant and Primary school in Northfleet, Kent and Northfleet School for Boys.

Eddie Gordon then attended Gravesend Technical College to study Advanced Level English language and literature.

Eddie Gordon immersed himself in the different styles of songs on the A and B-sides from the UK and the US.

Eddie Gordon's first DJing was in 1974 at the age of 15 in a Northfleet Church hall and later at 16 selecting music at friends parties.

At 16 years old, Eddie Gordon completed his secondary education at Northfleet School for Boys in June 1975, employed full-time immediately at Cosy Glide in Northfleet, an aluminium door and window manufacturer.

December 1975 Eddie Gordon left Cosy Glide to take up a previously held position as a Laboratory Assistant for the aircraft paint manufacturing company Dufay Titanine before moving in 1977 to work as a Laboratory Assistant for Britannia Refining Metals.

Early 1980 Eddie Gordon was employed by the Royal Mail and stationed at the main Post Office in High Holborn, London WC1, Eddie Gordon's last 'normal' job until taking up DJing full-time in 1982.

From 1977 to 1980, Eddie Gordon took evening classes at Gravesend Technical College to study O Level then Advanced level in English Language and English Literature; a period of his life that gave Eddie Gordon the necessary education to later write weekly newspaper columns.

From 1984 through to 1988 Eddie Gordon was regularly booked by major London event promoters as the support DJ for BBC Radio 1 DJs and Capital Radio DJs working in the big towns and cities of South East of England.

Also from the mid to the late 1980s Eddie Gordon spotted and supported the emerging DJ talents of Tim Westwood BBC Radio 1, Trevor Nelson MBE BBC Radio 1, Gilles Peterson BBC Radio 1, Norman Jay MBE, CJ Macintosh and Paul Oakenfold at his Gravesend club night The Slammer and in his weekly music column Sounds Spot in the county newspaper the Kent Messenger.

Eddie Gordon's agency was the first of its kind in the UK devoted to radio DJs playing dance music.

Eddie Gordon managed Pete Tong of BBC Radio 1 for 20 years from 1984 to 2004 and Jeff Young of BBC Radio 1 from 1985 to 1992.

In 1999, Eddie Gordon set up the DJ agency IMD Ltd with DJs Pete Tong and Carl Cox heading the roster with a vision of the worldwide stage for Tong.

Eddie Gordon opened and closed his participation in this unique meeting by predicting that digital delivery would be 'the future' of the world's music business.

Eddie Gordon moderated a panel at the first Billboard Magazine Summit in Las Vegas on 20 September 2006 titled 'Across the Pond'.

In June 2003, Eddie Gordon launched the world's first online digital promotion system for DJs with DJinTheMix which had an exclusive link to the then newly formed iTunes from Apple Inc The following year, DJinTheMix was nominated as a finalist in the Orange New Business Ventures in London and IMEA at Popkomm in Berlin, Germany.

Eddie Gordon joined BBC Radio 1 as a freelance producer in the early 1990s, and introduced a host of new programming ideas and DJ talent including Pete Tong, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules, Seb Fontaine, Fergie and Carl Cox.

For two years from 1995 to 1997, Eddie Gordon co-produced Danny Rampling's Saturday evening BBC Radio 1 show The Love Groove Dance Party on alternate weekends with Jeff Young.

From early 1992, Eddie Gordon had been receiving weekly two-hour long mixes on cassette from DJs Tony Humphries on New York's Hot 96 and Frankie Knuckles at KISS 100.

Eddie Gordon pitched the idea of a UK-based electronic dance music show, with an emphasis on house, that show-cased different DJs and styles of music to offer an outlet for UK dance music.

Eddie Gordon left the show in 2004, when it changed to a different production company.

Eddie Gordon took the Essential Mix to Ibiza in 1995, the first BBC produced show to air live from the noted club-scene holiday island, by recording an Essential Mix show set of DJ Nicky Holloway at the Ku club.

DJ Carl Cox's first ever live recording on the infamous Terrace for BBC Radio 1, produced by Eddie Gordon, won two awards in 1998, BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Show of the Year and Muzik Mag's BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Show of the Year.

Eddie Gordon was at the forefront of the Balearic beat worldwide explosion, and in celebration in 2005 BBC Radio 1 celebrated 10 years of broadcasting from Ibiza, followed by even more high profile 20 year celebrations in 2015.

Cox and Eddie Gordon then took a 9 hour flight westward across the International Date Line from Sydney at 4am 1 January 2000, landing at 8pm Friday 31 December 1999 in Honolulu to produce final leg of the Millennium celebration at the Kakaako Waterfront Park in Honolulu, Hawaii.

From 18 to 23 July 2011, Eddie Gordon produced and co-presented a 10-hour radio documentary A Piece of Paradise for the BBC 6 Music on the legendary Manhattan, New York nightclub Paradise Garage and its DJ Larry Levan.

In 2000 Eddie Gordon saw the potential of dual-broadcasting shows via both the radio and the internet, with live audio and video camera images being beamed around the planet on the World Wide Web.

In September 1988, Eddie Gordon remixed Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel" with Timmy Regisford in New York for MCA Records UK, helping Bobby Brown to achieve his first top 20 UK hit record off his debut album which sold in excess of 300,000 copies in the UK.

In 1989, Eddie Gordon was appointed as the Head of Dance Music for the labels RCA Records, Arista Records, Motown Records and Deconstruction Records.

Eddie Gordon edited the UK radio version of the Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston song "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be", giving the US company Arista Records their only successful campaign outside of North America with that recording.

In late 1992, Eddie Gordon was invited into the world-famous recording studios known as The Hit Factory by Pete Waterman and together they produced the UK Single No 3 hit record, West End feat.

In October 1994, Eddie Gordon founded the Manifesto label for Mercury Records UK.

Eddie Gordon left Manifesto Records in 1997 suffering from exhaustion and feeling that Universal were not totally supportive of the artists or projects signed to the label.

In 1998, Eddie Gordon started his independent label Neo Records, succeeding with the biggest selling dance record of the year 2000 with Sandstorm by Darude, licensed for the world and hitting No 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Under these alias labels, Eddie Gordon remixed over 75 records for various labels and record companies for mainly the UK, European club scene and North America.

In 2014, Eddie Gordon was made a founding member of the Chicago-based American DJ Hall of Fame for his Excellence in the Advancement, Expansion and Acceptance of Dance Music around the World.