- Trevor Dann
Trevor Dann is a British writer and broadcaster who has been associated with some of the most influential UK radio and television pop music programmes and events of the last 30 years.
Early career
Dann was educated at
Nottingham High School andFitzwilliam College, Cambridge . Dann’s radio career began atBBC Radio Nottingham in 1974. He was a producer atBBC Radio 1 from 1979 to 1983, working principally withNoel Edmonds ,Tommy Vance ,Dave Lee Travis andJohn Peel as well as developing the "25 Years of Rock " series, which later transferred to TV as "The Rock 'n' Roll Years ".In the 1980s he was a producer on
BBC2 ’sOld Grey Whistle Test for four years and presented his own weekly show forBBC Radio Cambridgeshire . In 1988 he was the founding programme director of GLR, the station which launched the radio careers of Chris Evans, Chris Morris andDanny Baker among others.Recent career
After a spell as an independent producer with his own company
Confederate Broadcasting , Dann became Head of Radio 1 Production with responsibility for the revamping the network’s music policy in 1995. The Daily Star dubbed him 'Dann Dann the Hatchetman'. He became involved in a dispute withStatus Quo after effectively banning their music from the station in a bid to improve its "youth" credentials. In 1996 he was appointed Head Of BBC Music Entertainment running all the BBC’s pop music production including Radio 1, Radio 2,Top of the Pops , Later and Glastonbury.He left the BBC in 2000 to join
EMAP as MD of Pop where he launched the Smash Hits Radio Show and the Smash Hits TV channel and was executive producer of the Smash Hits Pollwinners Party forChannel 4 . Between 2002 and 2004 he presented BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's breakfast show.Current projects
He was appointed director of the UK
Radio Academy in September 2006. His first book, a biography ofNick Drake called "Darker Than The Deepest Sea ", was published in the UK in February 2006 by Portrait and in the USA by daCapo. He has written for "The Times ,The Guardian " and "The Independent " as well as "Word Magazine ,Q magazine , Mojo" and "TheEvening Standard ".Awards
He won a BAFTA for his work on
Live Aid and has severalSony Radio Awards for production and presentation. He is a Fellow of both theRoyal Society of Arts and theRadio Academy .External links
* [http://www.trevordann.com trevordann.com]
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