Danny Baker: Classic or Dud

Bob was instantly in hideous pain, wailing indeed, and the match was abandoned due to this Baker caused toe injury. A quick trip off to hospital later on tour revealed that said to was not just broken but had become cancerous. Within the year Marley was up there with his namesake Jacob.

Whilst the causal connection between a bad tackle and cancer is highly unlikely and certainly won't stand up in a court of law, Baker blames himself to this day for cutting Bob's career short - and at the same time halving the birth rate in Jamaica.

Baker and Kelly will be teaming up again on Radio 5 in the new year (from 11 to 12:30).

but i'm sure he's good on BBC London so remarkably the classics just about have it. i'm generally impressed/envious of his career/fingers in pies ala Keith Allen.

In fact he was totally non-rockist at the NME, he was a soulboy and was into pop music, Michael Jackson, Earth Wind and Fire etc

Starting the Sniffin' Glue fanzine with Mark Perry: classic

Mind you, listening to a rubbish morning show will probably drive me out of bed, which would be a good thing.

I must admit Vicky is probably right. I thought having a morning show I really liked would help me get up int he morning, but actually i usuall listen until 9 and am then late for work*. Any news on if he is moving anywhere. Getting a nice Sunday morning show???

*Not that in the scheme of things this really matter.s

Oh, when he was on the NME, his first (I think) singles review column was all raving about disco 12" singles. Most of which had terrible titles like "I'll never forget my favourite disco" but as I've never heared the tracks, I'll refrain.

He'd write stuff like "It sounds like Highway Star, and I've always hated Highway Star" which was a LIE! which he admitted later. It was more pretence than the CLASH!!! (I mean this, btw). Also, when "So it goes" had a retrospective, a lot of the lost vids were supplied by DB. Hang on, who had a video recorder in 1976-1977? Very rich people, that's who.

Despite all that, I vote Classic.

It would be nice if they could do the obvious thing and put him back together with Danny Kelly again. It seems silly to have them doing different shows on the same station.

Giving Jon Gaunt the breakfast slot would probably be the worst thing ever, but I doubt I'll be listening to it anyway.

PLEASE tell me that's not happening.

Sad to see him go (though, in recent weeks, I've been craving sleep so much I've been hitting the snooze button more often than not).

Radio 4 is an option I suppose. Today tends to make me angrier than I want to be at that time of the morning though. Is there a channel that just does the shipping forecast all the time?

Resonance should do a breakfast show. They've got a clear field. Hello chaps! I'm available at a competitive rate!

xpost haha I think I would listen to Les Dawson in the morning. Lugubrious.

at least it wasn't an acci-dental death.

calz moving in hard on this vacant colin hunt role

:p

That Gazza album only has the man himself on three tracks! Gazza, not Danny Baker. Wot a ripoff. Wot a low moment in Gilbert O'Sullivan's career too.

I bet Danny Baker knows why Spooky Tooth are called Spooky Tooth.

now we'll never find out

imagine if you started getting flashbacks to the Terry Wogan interview, whilst getting interviewed by Danny Baker ...

And faster than you can say "gor blimey gov'ner luv a duck" he's back in front of adoring crowds.

BBC News - Danny Baker: Standing ovation at first show since Twitter storm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48249637

Also "Twitter storm"?

this is all really tasteful

Damn he was supposed to go away for good what happened

white people have finally forgiven him

He's just performing in front of crowds in his normal manner, he's not milking it.

no he should fuck himself off a cliff nothing else will atone

sometimes - and i'm just throwing this out there - a period of seemly staying out of the public eye might be in order

he is calm and posting as he always does iirc

perfect

Lol. That's the one.

nothing about danny baker is about seemliness or not being in the public eye, in particular his job

Well yeah hence fuck him

If was a bit more up for a short period of sweet obscurity he would be a coupla percent less a nauseating cunt for a day, at least.

fair

Biography is on Kindle daily deal today. #1 bestseller in autobiographies apparently.

His podcast with Gary Lineker stopped without any announcement.

Lineker has kept schtum on twitter about the whole thing - dunno if he's dropped Baker or they're just letting the dust settle.