Kenny Everett was later re-instated at the BBC, working both on local and national radio, but, in the Autumn of 1973, when commercial radio became licensed in the UK, he joined Capital Radio.
49 Facts About Kenny Everett
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Kenny Everett was a highly versatile performer, able to write his own scripts, compose jingles and operate advanced recording and mixing equipment.
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Kenny Everett's personality made him a regular guest on chat shows and game shows such as Blankety Blank.
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Kenny Everett openly supported the UK's Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher and made publicity appearances at conferences and rallies.
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Kenny Everett was diagnosed with HIV in 1989 and died in 1995.
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Kenny Everett was interviewed at the BBC and offered a job as a presenter on the BBC Light Programme, the forerunner to BBC Radio 2.
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Kenny Everett declined in favour of the less-constrained world of pirate radio, where he began his career, in December 1964, as a DJ for Radio London.
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Kenny Everett adopted the name "Everett" from a childhood hero, the American film comic actor Edward Everett Horton.
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Kenny Everett was heard in May 1967 on the BBC's soon-to-be-discontinued BBC Light Programme previewing the Beatles' forthcoming album Sgt.
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Kenny Everett had previously struck up a friendship with the Beatles and accompanied them on their August 1966 tour of the United States, sending back daily reports for Radio London.
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At Radio 1, Kenny Everett continued to develop his distinctive presentation style, encouraged by producer Angela Bond who had persuaded her superiors to give him his first programme, although he later reacted against her as a representative of the BBC.
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In 1970, Kenny Everett again found himself dismissed, this time after suggesting on air that Mary Peyton, the British Transport Minister's wife, had bribed her driving test examiner.
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The BBC thought the comment "indefensible", although shortly before the incident Kenny Everett had given a controversial interview with Melody Maker contrary to a BBC embargo preventing him from giving interviews.
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Kenny Everett was then heard on various BBC local radio stations before being reinstated at Radio 1 in April 1973.
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Kenny Everett joined the station and was given a weekend show, where he further developed his distinctive ideas.
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From January 1974, following poor audience figures which in turn followed a difficult start for Capital during a time of industrial strife, the station changed to a more pop based, rather than light music, format, with Everett presenting the breakfast show with his former colleague and friend from the pirate station Radio London days, Dave Cash, and so reactivating the "Kenny and Cash" show.
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When Cash moved to the lunchtime slot in 1975, Kenny Everett continued alone on the breakfast show.
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Kenny Everett created many comedy characters on The Breakfast Show with Cash on Capital.
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In May 1975, Kenny Everett found early mornings too much for his lifestyle and he vacated the breakfast show to Graham Dene and moved to less high-pressure weekend timeslots at Capital on Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes.
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In 1975, Kenny Everett played a pivotal role in getting Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" released as a single.
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On 5 February 1980, Kenny Everett made his only appearance on the BBC Radio 4 show Just a Minute, where he spoke on the subject of marbles for 90 seconds.
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Kenny Everett returned to Capital Radio in June 1984, reviving his Saturday lunchtime show.
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Kenny Everett presented daytime shows on weekdays until 1994, when his health deteriorated to the point he was unable to continue.
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Kenny Everett appeared in several television series, beginning in 1968 with a production for Granada Television called Nice Time which was co-presented by Germaine Greer and Jonathan Routh.
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In 1970 he made three series for London Weekend Television : The Kenny Everett Explosion, Making Whoopee and Ev; and he took part in the 1972 BBC TV series Up Sunday.
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Also in 1973, Kenny Everett provided the voice of the cat 'Charley' in the Charley Says animated series of public information films.
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Kenny Everett was the announcer on the original version of ATV's "big box game" Celebrity Squares which ran on ITV from 1975 to 1979.
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Kenny Everett was a frequent panel guest on the BBC quiz show Blankety Blank.
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Kenny Everett hosted two short-lived quiz shows late in his career, Brainstorm and Gibberish.
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Kenny Everett created the never-seen character of "Lord Thames", supposedly the owner of Thames Television.
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The last episode of Series 3 ended with Kenny Everett giving a farewell speech as the set and scenery was being stripped down by the crew.
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The final shot before the closing credits was Kenny Everett himself being picked up and placed inside an oversized dustbin.
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Kenny Everett fell out with Thames regarding the management of his show, including the scheduling against the BBC's top-rated Top of the Pops on Thursday evenings.
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Kenny Everett often appeared in nothing more than frilly underwear and high heels.
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Kenny Everett made one foray into film with 1984's Bloodbath at the House of Death, a spoof of contemporary horror films, which was penned by Kenny Everett's usual writing partners Barry Cryer and Ray Cameron.
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In 1977, Kenny Everett collaborated with Mike Vickers to release the single Captain Kremmen, based on one of his comedy characters.
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In 1983 Kenny Everett released the single "Snot Rap", ostensibly sung by two of his TV characters, Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt.
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Kenny Everett married the singer and psychic Audrey "Lady Lee" Middleton at Kensington Register Office on 2 June 1969.
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Kenny Everett had consequently supported the actions of Margaret Thatcher in opposing Scargill.
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Kenny Everett became close friends with Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, after they met on Kenny Everett's breakfast radio show on Capital Radio in 1974.
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The fallout resulted in Middleton and Kenny Everett communicating only via their lawyers.
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Kenny Everett was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1989 and he made his condition known to the public in 1993.
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Kenny Everett died from an AIDS-related illness on 4 April 1995, aged 50.
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In 1981 Kenny Everett co-wrote a semi-fictitious autobiography entitled The Custard Stops at Hatfield.
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Kenny Everett is the subject of a 1997 episode of the Thames Television series Heroes of Comedy which covers his life and career from his beginnings on pirate radio until his death.
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On 18 November 2007, ITV1 broadcast a tribute show to Kenny Everett entitled Licence to Laugh.
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Additionally, contemporary celebrities such as Chris Moyles and Chris Tarrant talked about their love for the funny entertainer and discussed the ways in which Kenny Everett had influenced them and their work.
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The documentary When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett, broadcast on Channel 4, tells the story of the relationship between the two men from the moment they met in 1974 when Mercury was a guest on Everett's radio show, through lovers and drug taking to when both died of AIDS.
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Kenny Everett was portrayed by Dickie Beau in the 2018 Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody, a biographical musical drama about the life of Freddie Mercury.