Radio 2 will post all their thoughts about Steve after killing his show - probably the best show in the world.

Shame they didn't appreciate him when he was alive 😢

Definitely no G 😢

Can't bear it😢

Sums up the UK. Young idiots trying to make their mark whilst being completely out of their depth and completely out of touch with what people actually want.

Couldn't agree with you more Simon. Our parents had Terry, we had Steve - the voice of our generation.

Ageism

and Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust and Quarterflash, I can't listen to any of those and not think of Steve.

Same here Jason. I'm 59. . All the best in Oz. It's cold in North West England.

@simondalzell5635 thanks Simon. You keep warm!

soon be spring@@jasonpetch9403

Yes. I agree. The 'Radio 2 Family' seems to be as toxic as the ITV Daytime one. Poor Steve, I will miss him. Let us hope they don't give Sunday Love Songs to someone like Alison Hammond. I cannot bear her and she is everywhere.

Whole of the BBC is a toxic cesspit 🤬r.i.p Steve ✌🏻

I love Steve, but his afternoon show had become a little self-indulgent....ie: only playing playlist songs for 90 seconds & a full length of it was a favourite. Still was busy at the weekend with shows. Also was on at least 400k a year, so not treated terribly.

@@senorpasso8670 On reflection, and now the initial shock of his passing has subsided, I feel I must agree with you about the show. Perhaps the BBC should have moved him a decade ago to a different slot and created a new format, but who knows? Yes, he was well paid, but he was treated shabbily in the 90s by Radio 1, who wanted him out and put him on at breakfast, where the show didn't work. I thought he was good when he took his posse to the original Talk Radio in the 90s. They could mess about to their hearts' content and not have to worry about chopping off records partway through. I still think the end of his afternoon show on Radio 2 could have been handled a little more sensitively. It was an age-related thing, which in itself is discriminatory. Can you imagine the uproar had he been black or gay or disabled? The BBC and its dwindling listeners will still be that much poorer-served thanks to Steve's passing. I worked in community radio for nearly six years and even there, the politics involved was dreadful, so goodness only knows what it was like at the BBC. I quit when I felt the wind of change blowing through broadcasting. Yes, even at my modest level I was still subject to OfCom rules and it got to the stage where you could hardly say anything or express an opinion without someone complaining. The fun went out of doing it so I quit. Sorry, rant over. RIP Steve Wright. ❤

Employed for 4 decades, 400 k a year towards the end, multiple TV shows, and about to feature on the New digital channels. We'd all have liked to have been trusted terribly like that!

Me too

The Sunday Love Somngs Theme is: Theme from 'The Young And Restless' (Lost)

@@richardatkinson7854Thanks so much for that Richard. It’s sometimes amazing how a piece of music, or in this case, a jingle, can just hold such memories. I was only very young when that jingle was used for Love Songs, so although the programme wasn’t really for me, there of course was the ICONIC and music missed voice of Steve Wright presenting the show.

@@Dan_Blick1986 I remember hearing the jingle at 5:06 fairly recently

That jingle in question comes from Vanessa Williams' Colours of the Wind from the Disney film Pocahontas.

@@grantcampbell9560Thanks so much Grant for sharing that 😊. I’ve just found the full length piece of music on KZfaq and I would never have known that was where the jingle was taken from. Apologies if Radio 2 / Steve did continue to use that jingle in recent times for Love Songs - I haven’t listened the programme for a while, yet you always felt “safe” knowing the show was there and that Steve presented it. 24 hours on, it still feels surreal to have to use past tense when referring to him.

I'm glad to find someone my sort of age, im 18 in March, and he was so key throughout my years, I remember being in the back of the car going to places like Whitby and this legend would be on, loved him, will always love and now miss him

I know I’ve been looking for them to download on BBC sounds

I downloaded loads. I got episodes where stuff is repeated. But I listen to it just in case the previous was edited short. God love him.

Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo can be found doing their original shows on Greatest Hits Radio. Pop Master, confessions, etc. Just a pity there'll never be a Steve Wright in the Afternoon show to join them on there.

@@richardatkinson7854thank you I didn’t know that I knew about Ken Bruce but I didn’t realise Simon was there too might be worth getting into greatest hits radio as the BBC has defiantly had it

I'm 58...well said young man

@@cyrilrogan4069 Thank you 😊

Agreed, this is the one I came to find! It’s weird how a specific little jingle sticks in your head

@@dasmidstavery true…. He was one of the best…

No, respectfully disagree with you on that - the funniest and most creative DJ this country has ever produced was, The Late Great, "Kenny Everett" an absolute master of his craft!! For me personally the Steve Wright show was never the same after he left radio One rather than be sacked by the arse h**e that was, and still is Matthew Bannister that prick who was responsible for clearing out all of the radio One DJs that millions of people listened to during the 70s and 80s the likes of DLT, Simon Bates, Adrian just, Bruno Brooks, Alan "fluff" Freeman, to name but a few. When Steve Wright left Radio 1 he went to talk radio and a few commercial stations for a while before resurfacing at BBC Radio 2 but I always felt that his show on R2 was a watered down version of what he had previously done on Radio 1. All the good characters had gone there were no afternoon boys and girls the "posse" and lots of filler. He was undoubtedly an extremely accomplished broadcaster with a considerable longevity but definitely not the greatest broadcaster/ DJ this country has ever produced.

Tony Blackburn, Johnny Walker and Ken Bruce are all very much still alive they haven't left the party.

@@bbc8891 ha I know they still around,I listen to them and others including new ?, but James.i personally feel it maybe morbid,but just life in it self, as you reach a certain age' people who you felt warm and comfortable with "leaving the party of our life's .and I think people who you knew were leaving at certain time , someone unexpectedly as to leave , and that person ,left a big gap of colder air, but left a warmth of lifes memories .

I don’t think it will be around for much longer as it’s Steve’s own show that he made himself