David Hamilton is celebrating 65 years in broadcasting with a new autobiography, David Hamilton`s Long and Winding Road.
The book tells the story of his journey from growing up on a remote farm in Sussex where he listened to the stars on the wireless, of returning there many years later to broadcast from an attic in his farmhouse on Boom Radio, becoming at 85 the oldest person to do a daily show on national radio, and of all the places in between.
One of the first DJs to play rock’n’roll on the British Forces Network in Germany during his National Service in the RAF in 1959, he did one of the first interviews with a new group called The Beatles on ABC TV in 1963, was the first face to be seen on Thames TV in 1968 and had a daily show that was broadcast on both Radio 1 and Radio 2 in the 70s.
On BBC and commercial radio he has hosted over 13,000 shows.
In one of the frankest autobiographies of the year he tells of his Life, Loves and Lessons Learned.
David Hamilton`s Long And Winding road is published on July 19 by Austin Macauley and can be found here.