Richard Blade
| Richard Blade | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Richard Sheppard May 23, 1956 England, UK |
| Occupation | DJ |
Richard Blade (born Richard Sheppard; 23 May 1956) is a popular Los Angeles radio, television, and film personality from Torquay, England. He is best known for his radio programs that feature new wave and Popular music from the 1980s. He has stated that Depeche Mode is his favourite band.
Blade worked as a DJ known as "The Young Dick Sheppard" in the United Kingdom and Europe before moving to Los Angeles and starting work as a DJ at KROQ-FM in 1982, briefly working at KNAC before a music format change. He took a new name from the Sci-Fi film, Blade Runner. Within a few months of working in Los Angeles, Blade had become the #1 Arbitron-rated radio personality on the West Coast, and in 1982, he began to host a daily television program on KCAL-TV called "MV3," which later became Video One.
In 1984, he created, produced and hosted "VideoBeat" for KTLA. The weekly series ran for two years. Blade appeared in Square Pegs, Hunter, Divorce Court, and appeared as a contestant (as "Dick Sheppard") on Card Sharks among other shows. He appeared in the 1985 film Girls Just Want to Have Fun.
Between 1991 and 2003, Blade hosted several music-related television programs, including "America's Top Ten", which he took over from Casey Kasem. He hosted several "Flashback" radio programs on KROQ-FM, and was a frequent host at Los Angeles dance clubs on their KROQ Nights, including the famous Palace Theatre in Hollywood. He appeared on the cover of a six-volume set of 1980s music compilations called Richard Blade's Flashback Favorites. In 1998, he wrote for the UPN TV Sci-Fi series "7 Days" including writing the second season's finale, "The Cure".
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