Roger Scott was best known for presenting an afternoon radio show on Capital London from 1973 until 1988 and a late night Sunday show, Scott on Sunday on BBC Radio 1 until his death from stomach cancer.
12 Facts About Roger Scott
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Roger Scott was born in Chipping Barnet in 1943, and grew up in Surbiton.
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Roger Scott developed an early love of the rock and roll music being created at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s.
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Roger Scott did not enjoy working on television, and the show finished after only one series.
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In 1973 Roger Scott joined the original on-air line-up of London's Capital London.
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Roger Scott was one of the first people in the British media to popularise the music of Bruce Springsteen.
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Roger Scott was always a big supporter of the West Coast Beach Boys influence on modern popular music and in anticipation of the Rock Festival and a series of two concerts at the Empire Pool, Roger Scott had listeners vote on their all time 15 top Beach Boy Hits of all time.
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Roger Scott disdained the standardised playlists, market and audience research and other techniques introduced by the commercial stations in the 1980s.
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Roger Scott was the source of many unreleased Beatles session tapes that were issued on bootlegs.
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Barrett never leaked anything; it was his compilations of tapes, copies of which were made by Roger Scott, that got leaked.
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The Saturday show featured interviews with many artists, and during this time Roger Scott interviewed Dion, Jackson Browne, Don Henley and many others.
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Roger Scott died in the Chiltern District of Buckinghamshire on 31 October 1989, at the age of 46.