BBC News: Alan 'Fluff' Freeman
Alan Freeman has died, aged 79. For other forty years, Fluff was a radio institution - from Pick of the Pops to his legendary rock shows which mixed metal with classical music, and he will be missed by pop pickers everywhere.
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