Tony Prince - Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg was the ultimate Radio Station. It was entertaining, the DJ’s were fun to listen to and the music was great.

You felt the camraderie, the banter and loved the witty introductions between the records. Before the pirate radio stations came along, this was how Disc Jockeys should be. All the DJ’s were household names - Tony Prince, Ed Stuart, Mark Wesley, Kid Jensen, Paul Burnett…

And so it happened, in the early 70’s I had a call from a Swedish club owner called Roland who asked me for a famous show DJ?

He was opening his brand new club - a converted warehouse in Malmoe that held 500 screaming youngsters that was painted black and had an enormous stage. It was called ‘Sir William Pitt’. Strange name for a venue in Sweden? (Ah, well ‘Pitt” is the swedish word for a certain male body part; very typical of Swedish humour). I need SHOW Disc Jockeys Roland implored!

My heroes were in Radio Luxembourg, but could they do a show and would they want to come to Scandinavia? I phoned Radio Luxembourg which led to negotiations on who might be available and an offer that would attract one of them. Tony Prince volunteered, he said The Royal Ruler would love to come and do a show for his many fans in Denmark and Sweden. On the first tour, we arranged the Malmoe gig and a couple of Danish ones. I watched him do his show he was incredible. Tony had amazing stage presence, tremendous rapport and had them screaming all night long.

This led to several Scandinavian visits, here below is a picture of Tony in the Danish town of Viborg clowning around with our DJ Hammadi Star.