Pete Murray (disc jockey)
| Peter Murray OBE |
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|---|---|
| Birth name | Peter Murray James |
| Born |
19 September 1925 London, England, UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Peter "Pete" Murray, OBE (born 19 September 1925) is a British radio and television presenter and a stage and screen actor. His broadcasting career spanned over 50 years.
Pete Murray was born Peter Murray James in London, England, in 1925 and was educated at St Paul's School.
He first joined the English service of Radio Luxembourg in 1949 or 1950 as one of its resident announcers in the Grand Duchy, and remained there until 1956. Back in London, and now calling himself "Pete" rather than "Peter", he continued to be heard frequently on Radio Luxembourg for many years, introducing pre-recorded sponsored programmes. He also presented popular music on the BBC Light Programme, particularly in the programme Pete Murray's Party from 1958 to 1961, and co-hosted one of BBC Television's earliest pop music programmes, the skiffle-based Six-Five Special (1957–1958); other regular presenters were Jo Douglas and Freddie Mills. He was a regular panellist on the same channel's Juke Box Jury (1959–1967). He was the "guest DJ" on several editions of ABC-TV's Thank Your Lucky Stars (1961–1966) and he later hosted Come Dancing. He was among the first regular presenters of Top of the Pops when it began in January 1964. In 1961 he co-starred with Dora Bryan in a TV sitcom about two newly weds entitled Happily Ever After.
During the early 1960s, he co-hosted the New Musical Express Poll Winners' Concert, annually held at Empire Pool, Wembley, with acts such as the Beatles, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Joe Brown and the Bruvvers, the Who, and many others. These were shown on television. In September 1968, he stood in for Alan Freeman on Pick of the Pops, while Freeman was in New York. Murray linked up with him for a look at the US pop scene during the two shows that he did.
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