Next Tuesday at 10 on BBC Radio 2,

Here's a letter from a Mr Fawkes, and its says Dear Fluff love the Saturday Rock Show please keep up the good work and remember more Purple, more Zeppelin, more Alice, more Cupid's Inspiration,  more Greenslade, more New Riders of the Purple Sage, more Van, more Focus, more Family, more UFO, more Hawkwind, more Shocking Blue, more Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, more Fairfield Palour, more Igginbottom, more ELP and especially more Creedence, not 'arf: tarrah. 

The two greatest DJs of them all were Sir John Peel and Alan Freeman. Where else, but on the new releases section of POTP would I get to hear Black Swan's Echos & Rainbows, Man's Daughter of the Fireplace. Edgar Broughton Band's Apache Dropout and the Alice Cooper Group's Caught In a Dream and when others followed fashion and decided they would play it no longer Alan continued to fly the flag for Emerson. Lake and Palmer.

Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman MBE is missed by music lovers everywhere.

Black Sabbath wrote a song about him call Fluff, which appears on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Robin Gibb had this to say

Thought i would bump this up.Tonight at 10 BBC RADIO 2.

Stu

I remember hearing a programme on Radio Scotland, I think, presented by Muriel Gray - she was on The Tube for a while back in the day. She was interviewing Alan Freeman over the phone, and  I can't recall how the conversation got there, but Muriel commented that she tended to switch off when the records were playing on her show - she'd look around the studio for something else to do, and didn't care what was being played. 

Freeman was, truly, absolutely horrified at the thought of presenting a music programme without being totally and utterly committed to the music being played. He just couldn't believe what he was hearing.

Ah, for the good ol' days of the Saturday Rock Show......