Wicked speed - Anne Nightingale

Annie Nightingale's smoky voice has punctuated millions of midnight hours and her knowledge of the rock and roll scenes, spanning over thirty years, is second to none. She's also still doing what she knows best and likes best: introducing the very best of avant-garde pop music to the millions. Before she joined the BBC she hung out with the Beatles and the Stones. The epitome of 'Swinging London' herself, she knew all the great musicians, style-setters and gurus of the sixties and, perhaps uniquely, has retained her position in the ever-shifting hierarchy of cool.

'Her memoirs, now in paperback, are witty, well-written, informed, richly anecdotal and hugely entertaining . . . she continues to grow old disgracefully.' The Times

'It is impossible to overstate the importance of Annie Nightingale' Time Out