Pete Waterman

Peter Alan Waterman, OBE (born 15 January 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting team he wrote and produced many hit singles.

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In the 1980s, former Coventry DJ and early Specials manager Pete Waterman became part of the formidable pop production team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, whose artists included Peel-played outfits such as Dead Or Alive and Bananarama, as well as Kylie Minogue.

In 1984, Peel became the first DJ to play a SAW production on national radio, in the form of Agents Aren't Aeroplanes. On 21 May 2002, he admitted that there were differing interpretations of this milestone in musical history:


 * “Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, it’s up to you to decide."

In a 2012 Guardian interview, Waterman recalled that Peel had reacted to a perceived snub for SAW at the 1989 Brit awards by taking him for a curry:


 * ”His daughter was a Kylie fanatic, but John understood where we were coming from. He wasn't a snob.”

Other public admirers of Waterman include Peel-played artists such as KLF visionary Bill Drummond. In 2009, Waterman wrote the foreword to the biography of Specials and Fun Boy Three vocalist Neville Staple.