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31st Dec 2007, 1:20 AM #1
Ex-BBC DJ Kevin Greening dies aged 44
Another shocking/too young death.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7165356.stm
He did some good stuff on the Breakfast Show with Zoe Ball.
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31st Dec 2007, 9:34 AM #2Pip Madeley Guest
Can't say I've ever heard of him, but tragic all the same.
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31st Dec 2007, 9:41 AM #3WhiteCrow Guest
Yes this is pretty terrible news, poor guy. Combined with the Motherwell captain who died during a football match at 35, this seems totally out of the blue.
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31st Dec 2007, 4:53 PM #4
This is vey sad, and something of a shock - although he'd sort of disappeared off my own radar in recent years, I always used to like listening to his show back in the mid-90's. He was one the last really good, and genuinely entertaining proper DJs Radio 1 employed, before they started taking on trendy 'presenters', with little or no radio experience. His show was always very funny, especially with his cast of bizarre characters like the wonderful Raymond Sinclair, and radio will be a poorer place without him.
Rest in peace, Kev.
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31st Dec 2007, 5:52 PM #5
I remember when Mel B outed him live on air!!
RIP.
Si.
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1st Jan 2008, 1:20 PM #6
Things seem to have taken a slightly more sinister turn:
Man arrested after Greening death
A man has been arrested following the death of radio presenter Kevin Greening, Scotland Yard has said.
The man, in his 50s, was held at the address in Wandsworth, south London, where Greening's body was found.
He has been questioned on suspicion of possessing and intending to supply Class A drugs, and has been bailed until March.
Greening, an ex-BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ, died in his sleep on Saturday at the age of 44.
A post-mortem examination failed to establish the cause of his death and further tests will now be conducted, the Metropolitan Police added.
The case is being treated as an "unexplained" death and detectives from the force's specialist crime directorate are involved in trying to establish what happened.
This unit investigates London's "most serious and high-profile cases" and is sometimes described as the "Murder Squad" by the media.
However, a Scotland Yard spokesman insisted this was not currently a murder inquiry.
(From BBC News - full story here.)
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3rd Jan 2008, 12:00 PM #7
Now this is sad and surprising. RIP Kev.
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3rd Jan 2008, 12:08 PM #8WhiteCrow Guest
I thought he was a great DJ, I know a lot of Radio 1 DJ's who grate though. His and Zoe Ball's breakfast show used to be quite fun, though not quite as good as Mark and Lard's in my opinion.
I show my age now, cos I can't start Chris Moyles anymore.
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3rd Jan 2008, 6:15 PM #9
The Sun are on the case:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle643862.ece
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3rd Jan 2008, 10:46 PM #10
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3rd Jan 2008, 10:57 PM #11WhiteCrow Guest
It's the way they almost seem to relish in the details of his death, instead of treating it like a tragedy. I bet even Robert Maxwell got more sympathetic coverage when he died.
But then this is the paper which famously published pictures of dying Liverpool fans at Hillsborough, so why is anyone surprised.
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3rd Jan 2008, 11:16 PM #12
It disgusts me the way The S*n still equates being gay with being 'kinky'. It was that sort of assertion, in an article a couple of years ago, by the hateful Richard Littlejohn, which led me to stop buying The S*n, and, ultimately, newspapers in general.
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3rd Jan 2008, 11:29 PM #13WhiteCrow Guest
It's like Terry Pratchett said in one of his books, people don't buy newspapers for "news" they buy it for "olds". People buy newspapers not to learn new events, as much to somehow have validated their opinions in black and white.
We all have a favourite newspaper which is closest to our worldview, and we kind of stick with that one. To a highly opinionated section of society the Sun is their Bible. Which is tragic really.
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