About Paul - Paul Masters
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Here is just a little bit of information about my broadcasting career :-
When I was very young my aunt Isobel asked me if I wanted to be a Disc Jockey. I remember thinking that I was not really interested in horses.
I guess it all really started in about 1974 when commercial radio hit the airwaves in the Midlands with the launch of BRMB. Suddenly radio was not something that came from London, but from just down the road… and it was exciting.
I even remember that once my cousin David and myself, rode our push bikes from Catshill in Bromsgrove to the BRMB studios in Aston, which looking back was highly dangerous thing to do, though we had both passed our cycle proficiency test… so we survived!
We spent our school holidays introducing records “radio DJ style” on an old 1960’s record player. We only had about 3 old 45’s, but with the B sides we had enough for hours of fun. I remember we had Johnny Tillotson’s “Poetry in Motion,” the Honeycombs “Have I the Right” and Johnny Pearson’s “Sleepy Shores.”
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One day we managed to get ourselves invited to see Ed Doolan present his show live at BRMB. We were in awe of the man, and I knew that one day I wanted to work in local radio.
(You may like to know that in those days the BRMB studios were actually the old ATV studios in Aston, where the Golden Shot had been broadcast live, though the theatre bit had been demolished and was now just the car park at the rear).
It was at this stage that my cousin and I started to do discos. We built the equipment ourselves using two old record players. We even created a light-
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