Simon Bates

Simon Bates is a British radio broadcaster who was a colleague of John Peel at Radio One from 1968 to 1993.

Top Of The Pops
Simon Bates appeared as a co-host with Peel in sporadic, multi-DJ episodes of Top of the Pops during the 1980s. They never appeared as joint hosts, which was not surprising given Peel's thinly-veiled dislike for his colleague.


 * [At one Radio 1 Christmas Party] Kid Jensen, Paul Burnett and myself... not a carefully honed fighting team, but nevertheless filled with drink... we went down and waited in the underground carpark at the BBC for the opportunity to beat up Simon Bates. Fortunately he didn’t turn up, or we might have suffered an embarrassing reverse, as he’s probably stronger than us.

Links

 * Simon Bates wikipedia entry
 * They both hated DLT