24 Facts About Ian Levine

Ian Geoffrey Levine was born on 22 June 1953 and is a British songwriter, producer, and DJ.

Ian Levine suffered a major stroke in July 2014, leaving him with severely limited movement on the left side of his body.

Ian Levine has survived nasal cancer, bladder cancer, sepsis and sarcoidosis.

Ian Levine has organised several meetings with hundreds of family members over the years, which have been covered by media outlets.

Ian Levine began collecting Motown records from the age of 13, building a collection from UK record shops and those his family visited on holidays to Miami and New Orleans.

Ian Levine joined other DJs in travelling to Stoke on Trent to join the Northern soul all-nighter "Torch", which was quickly shut down but was the fore runner of the Wigan Casino events, which Ian Levine DJ'ed on the 3rd all-nighter.

Opening on 6 December 1979, Ian Levine became the club's first resident DJ at London's gay disco Heaven on its set-up, and remained there through almost all of the 1980s.

In 1973, Ian Levine caught notice when he turned Robert Knight's "Love on a Mountain Top" into a UK Top 10 hit, leading to him assisting Dave McAleer in compiling Solid Soul Sensations the following year, which was released on the British Disco Demand label and reached No 30 on the UK Albums Chart.

Ian Levine co-wrote and co-produced the theme music for the 2004 Donna Summer television special "Discomania"None.

In 2010, Ian Levine formed a new boy band called Inju5tice.

Ian Levine is known as a long running fan of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Ian Levine was consulted by members of the production team about continuity for a while during the mid-1980s.

In 1985, when the BBC announced that the series would be placed on an eighteen-month hiatus, and the show's cancellation was widely rumoured, Ian Levine was heavily involved with the media protest covertly organised by series producer John Nathan-Turner.

Ian Levine appeared on the ITN's News at One arguing against the decision, and together with the series' production manager Gary Downie gathered a group of actors from the series to record "Doctor in Distress".

Ian Levine organised a private project to recreate the incomplete 1979 Doctor Who story Shada with animation and newly recorded dialogue from many surviving cast members.

Ian Levine had hoped that the project would be released on DVD, but the commissioning editor of the Doctor Who DVD range did not use Ian Levine's animation on the DVD release of the story.

The completed Ian Levine version appeared on torrent sites almost two years later, on 12 October 2013.

Ian Levine has been responsible for producing a number of extras on the Doctor Who DVD releases: the documentaries Over the Edge and Inside the Spaceship were included on the 3-disc set The Beginning, while Genesis of a Classic appeared on the release for Genesis of the Daleks.

Ian Levine co-wrote the theme music for K-9 and Company, a pilot for a proposed Doctor Who spin-off series featuring the robotic dog and Sarah Jane Smith.

Ian Levine claimed to have co-written Attack of the Cybermen, although Eric Saward disputed this.

Ian Levine claimed that a storyline for the unmade Season 23 story Yellow Fever and How to Cure It was written, but Bignell has noted that there is no evidence such a storyline document was commissioned from Robert Holmes, and took issue with Ian Levine's claim that the Rani would not have been featured in the said story if created, as documentation exists to show permission was received from Pip and Jane Baker to use the Rani.

Ian Levine owned the only complete set of DC Comics in the world, completed in 2004, with at least one copy of each DC comic book sold at retail from 1935 to 2015.

Ian Levine's collection was photographed in DC's own official history book.

Ian Levine sold the collection in 2008 "for a tiny fraction of their value" in Berkeley, California.