Richard Skinner

Biography

Richard Skinner (born 26 December 1951) is a British radio and television presenter. He was the opening announcer and TV anchor at the Live Aid concert in 1985, and is the only presenter to have fronted all three of the BBC's leading pop music programmes, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops on television and the Radio One Top 40 show.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Touch

  1983

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  Rank

  1988

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  The Wonderful And Frightening World Of...

  1984

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  The Best Of Joy Division

  2008

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  Singles & Sessions 1979 - 81

  2006

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  In Concert - 345 Featuring Depeche Mode

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  BBC Live

  2005

Credited work

432 releases · 106 albums · active 1977–2023

• Other credits · 450
• Production · 6
• Performance · 4

Studios: Hammersmith Odeon · Glastonbury · The Town And Country Club, London · Paris Theatre, London

Frequent collaborators

• The Cure
• Depeche Mode
• Duran Duran
• Joy Division
• Joe Jackson
• The Cult
• Jethro Tull
• Led Zeppelin

Around the web

• Wikipedia