Paul Gambaccini. How come?

The BBC are currently celebrating this man’s distinguished 40 year career but I simply don’t understand how he’s still going. He is of course a very knowledgeable, wise and articulate authority on popular music but a strangely soulless broadcaster. He seems to deliver his carefully considered links from a lectern without warmth, humour or enthusiasm. Like a rather dull academic who takes himself and his subject a little too seriously. I much preferred the Smashie & Nicey ramblings of a now forgotten Radio 1 DJ called Adrian Juste. He once introduced this record and quipped “Chairman of the Board? Sounds like the president of Gambo’s fan club”.