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Mike Read Sells Record Collection
Chiswick Auction House has been instructed to auction Mike Read’s entire record collection and music ephemera tomorrow.
The collection of 120,000 rare vinyl records, with an estimated value of 'at least £1million’, and related ephemera is being talked about as the most exciting and important sale of its type ever to have been offered on the open market.
Mike Read is a radio veteran who regularly attracted 17m listeners to his Radio One show in the 1980’s and is well known for his extensive record collection.
The collection comprises of more than one hundred Motown demos by artists such as Marvin Gaye and the Marvelettes, rare promo discs and numerous items signed by music legends.
Read's professional broadcasting career began in March 1976 at Reading's Radio 210, where he co-hosted a show with Steve Wright, before joining Radio Luxembourg late in 1977.
He joined BBC Radio One at the end of 1978 and was soon presenting the night time programme before John Peel's show, where he championed new groups and featured live sessions. He was one of the most popular Roadshow presenters during his time at the station and took over the Breakfast Show on Monday 5 January 1981. His tenure in that slot is chiefly remembered for his on-air decision in 1984 not to play the Frankie Goes to Hollywood single "Relax" due to supposedly obscene lyrics. Read left Radio 1 in 1991 and moved to Capital Gold presenting his Mike Read Collection, which went out on a Sunday night, before taking on the weekday Drivetime show in mid-1992, where he remained until he left the station in late 1995.
He currently presents on weekday mornings between 05:00 and 07:00 on internet radio station Wight FM, according to reports.
He is also listed as a presenter on Frinton-on-Sea-based BIg L.
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