Paul Gambaccini

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Paul Matthew Gambaccini (born April 2, 1949) is an American-British radio and television presenter and author in the United Kingdom.

Since becoming a British citizen in 2005, he has dual citizenship in the United States and Britain. Gambaccini, also known as "The Great Gambo" and "The Professor of Pop," appeared on BBC Radio 1 for 16 years, including 11 years on a weekly basis tiling down the Billboard Top 30 artists.

Gambaccini, a long-serving arts journalist for British television, appeared regularly on BBC Radio 4's long-running arts program, and he appeared on many British television shows.

He was the host of Paul Gambaccini's Hall of Heroes, and he chairs the Radio 4 music quiz Counterpoint.

On Saturday afternoons, he is now the host of "Pick of the Pops" on BBC Radio 2.

Gambaccini, a 2005 graduate of the Radio Academy Hall of Fame, is the author of more than 15 books.

Education

Gambaccini, a native of the Bronx, New York City, studied at Dartmouth College, where he earned a degree in history in 1970.

He then moved to Oxford, where he obtained a degree in politics, philosophy, and economics. He has since returned to Oxford, where he delivered a series of lectures in January and February 2009 as the News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media. Andrew Hamilton, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, had invited him to address the university's LGBT students, students, and faculty in February 2010.

Personal life

Gambaccini has been openly gay for many years, including 2013: "I was never 'in'." He and Christopher Sherwood began a civil partnership in June 2012. They married in the New York Botanical Garden one week later.

Gambaccini said he had been characterized as a potential security risk by the BBC earlier in his career, owing to his sexuality, with a symbol resembling a Christmas tree on the back of his employee file: "It meant you were 'as camp as Christmas' and therefore a potential security risk." In reality, the symbol indicated that the subject should not be "promoted or relocated" without reference to the department in charge of security vetting, owing to left-leaning sympathies (see: "Christmas tree" files).

He lives in London's South Bank neighborhood.

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Broadcasting career

Gambaccini's radio career began at Dartmouth College, where he was music director of the now defunct WDCR, a college-owned and operated Top 40 radio station. Gambaccini's recommendations for playlisted songs that are likely to see more chart action in the May 11, 1968 issue of the international trade newspaper Billboard, as well as similar suggestions from radio programming staff at major commercial stations around the country, were among the first published in the May 11, 1968 issue of Billboard.

Gambaccini left Oxford to pursue further education in law at Harvard or Yale, but as British correspondent, I had the privilege of writing for Rolling Stone magazine. He attributes his broadcasting career to this article, particularly an interview with Elton John, which attracted him to the attention of BBC Radio producer John Walters, who arranged for him to host on BBC Radio 1.

Gambaccini began broadcasting in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 1, September 1974, first as a music reporter on the John Peel Saturday show Rockspeak, and later as a music reporter on the John Peel Saturday show Rockspeak. He appeared on The series All American Heroes from 1974, a collection of American talent. He began performing in September 1975 and was to front for the next 11 years, highlighting the week's music in the US chart. Until his last show on February 8, 1986, the show was broadcast every Saturday afternoon until his last show on Saturday afternoon. He went from independent radio to host American Countdown later. He returned to Radio 1 in 1990, but he was fired in 1993 during the tenure of controller Matthew Bannister.

Gambaccini made a name for himself on Britain's classical music radio Classic FM, where he hosted the weekly Classical CD Chart display. In 1995, he moved to BBC Radio 3 in a slot that had previously been used for Composer of the Week. In 1997, he returned to Classic FM.

He appeared regularly on BBC Radio 4's long-running arts program Kaleidoscope between 1975 and 1998, in addition to his work in music radio.

Gambaccini has been producing films for breakfast television for 13 years, first on TV-am and then GMTV. On Channel 4, he appeared on the Other Side of the Tracks in the early 1980s, which aired for three seasons. Pebble Mill at One, Call My Bluff, Music for the Millennium, and The South Bank Exhibition are among his television appearances.

He appeared on BBC Radio 2 in 1998. With "Born to Run," Bruce Springsteen's first show on April 18, 1998, he was once more opening the first of his weekly shows America's Greatest Hits. He left Classic FM in 2002 to host a weekly chart show on London's Jazz FM until 2004. He was also a contributor to the London station LBC when Chrysalis took it over.

He has worked extensively for BBC and the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) as well as contributing to numerous television programs, mainly related to music, film, and the arts. He narrated the BBC Radio version of Espedair Street, the Iain Banks book.

Gambaccini has been presenting the annual Ivor Novello Awards since 1990, the Parliamentary Jazz Awards since 2005, the Music Industry Trust's Man of the Year Dinner since 1999, and the Radio Academy Awards for a ten-year span from 1998 to 2008.

Gambaccini's Hall of Heroes, a 12-part series on Classic FM, was released between 9:00 and 9:30 on Sunday evenings. He took over as chairman of the Radio 4 music quiz Counterpoint from Edward Seckerson in March 2008, but he was briefly suspended in 2013 by Russell Davies and returned to the show in November 2014 after being advised of allegations of historical sexual offences against him. On November 15, 2014, he returned to Radio 2 with America's Greatest Hits, and he lasted until the following week, when he took over Pick of the Pops from Tony Blackburn.

"Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band began with him, and "Can't Stop The Feeling" by Justin Timberlake follows it. Trevor Nelson took over the Saturday Timeslot with his Rhythm Nation course, which was part of Gambaccini's America's Greatest Hits program for seven years. The show was revived on Greatest Hits Radio from February 2020, beginning with "Born to Run," just like the last BBC Radio episode, and ending with "Everything's Alright)" by Stevie Wonder. Gambaccini has also hosted special shows on Greatest Hits Radio on bank holidays and during the Christmas holidays. He co-presented a special show on Greatest Hits Radio in honor of Janice Long, who had appeared on Boxing Day in 1982.

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Awards

• 1995 – Philanthropist of the Year by the National Charity Fundraisers
• 1996 – Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio Award from the Radio Academy
• 2003 – Sony Radio Academy Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year
• 2005 – Sony Radio Academy Silver Award for a Weekly Music Programme
• 2005 – Inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame