13 Facts About Pete Drummond

Pete Drummond's parents were Geoffrey Francis Drummond-Hay and Margaret Felon, married in 1936.

Pete Drummond trained as an actor and toured the US, where he realised that, following the "British Invasion", English accents were in demand on radio stations.

Pete Drummond worked as an announcer in Wichita and Topeka, Kansas, before returning to Britain in 1966.

Pete Drummond then joined the staff of pirate station Radio London, where he had his own shows during the station's final months on air.

Pete Drummond joined Radio 1 from its start in September 1967, and, as someone who was seen as both avant garde and reliable, was used as one of the early presenters of Top Gear, along with John Peel who later took over the programme.

Pete Drummond continued presenting radio and occasionally TV programmes for the BBC until the early 1990s, often featuring progressive rock music on programmes such as Disco 2, Sounds of the Seventies and Sight and Sound In Concert.

Pete Drummond worked for the BBC World Service and Radio Luxembourg.

On 29 April 2011 Pete Drummond did the voice commentary for the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on the live broadcast made by the Discovery Channel.

Pete Drummond married Carolyn McDonald in 1966; they divorced in 1972.

Pete Drummond married Celia Humphris, the singer with the Trees folk band, on 26 August 1972 at Kensington Register Office.

Pete Drummond died in France, aged 70, on 11 January 2021.

Pete Drummond's sister Alison Drummond-Hay was born in 1946 and died from leukaemia in France, aged 63, in 2009.

Pete Drummond has two children, a daughter born 1966 from his first marriage, and a son born 1974 from his second marriage.