Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell posted on X: "Goodbye Johnnie. Sweet and brilliant man. I am so lucky to have known you. You were an inspiration." Walker had announced live on air in October that he ...

Popular radio presenter Johnnie Walker, a former pirate radio DJ who began his career with the BBC in 1969, has died aged 79. The veteran DJ had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and ...

"What tremendously sad news about Johnnie Walker - One of the true STARS of radio who just 'got it'. So many will feel like they've lost a personal friend today." BBC 5 Live presenter Nicky ...

Former pirate radio DJ Johnnie Walker joined the mainstream ... the newly launched BBC Radio 5. Following a return to the BBC Radio 1, he left the station for good in 1995 and that same year ...

Tributes are pouring in for the pioneering radio DJ and BBC presenter Johnnie Walker, who has died aged 79. Born Peter Dingley, Walker was a former pirate radio DJ who began his career with the ...

Johnnie Walker spent almost 60 years on the air as a radio DJ Johnnie Walker's long radio career was shaped by his early years as a pirate broadcaster in the 1960s, bobbing around on the ocean on ...

Tony Blackburn has paid tribute to radio DJ Johnnie Walker after he died at the age ... Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Blackburn said: “It’s very sad news, it was expected, because he’s ...

Johnnie Walker, one of the BBC’s longest-serving radio DJs, has died. Walker died earlier today at 79 following a long battle with lung disease, two months after calling time on his radio career.

Johnnie Walker, a former BBC Radio 2 DJ known for hosting the “Sounds of the 70s” show, died Monday. He was 79. The news was announced live on the station by Bob Harris, who took over Johnnie ...