By Richard Boyd
So sorry to read that Steve Wright has died at such a relatively young age of 69.
I interviewed him in the summer of 1993 when he brought his afternoon show and his ‘posse’ to sunny Southport when I was a journalist on the Lancashire Evening Post (now Lancashire Post) at the time.
Like so many people, I grew up listening to his show pretty much every day. His BBC1 show used to get millions of listeners.
He would say some things that presenters and DJs wouldn’t get away with in this age – especially someone on the BBC – poking fun at some pop stars, particularly ‘Prince’ and his ‘you need therapy’ catchphrase amongst many others, but he was naturally funny and there was no malice to him. His show was legendary.
I remember trying to ask him some serious questions at the start of the interview but he and his team started cracking jokes amongst themselves and it turned into chaos pretty quickly.
(As a side note, I took a young lady that I was interested in along to the interview in order to try to impress her but it didn’t improve my chances. She didn’t return my calls after that!). RIP Steve.
Richard Boyd, Owner of Red Flame Marketing