It has emerged that the late Annie Nightingale left greater than £1million to her youngsters in her will after she died earlier this yr.
The legendary BBC radio DJ, who was the primary feminine presenter on Radio 1, died in January on the age of 83 at her London residence after a brief sickness.
When she handed away, her tribute stated: 'Annie was a pioneer, a trailblazer and an inspiration to many.
'Her drive to share that enthusiasm with audiences has remained undiminished after six a long time of broadcasting on BBC TV and radio worldwide.'
Nightingale was a radio and tv presenter on the broadcaster for over 50 years, making him the longest-serving presenter within the historical past of Radio 1.
Now, newly launched property inventories reveal she left greater than £1million to her two youngsters, Alex and Lucy, together with her first husband, journalist Gordon Thomas.
In response to The Solar, Alex and Lucy have additionally been tasked with distributing Nightingale's belongings to her family and friends.
Her fortune is claimed to be price a complete of £1,061,543, after a glittering profession that noticed her change into synonymous with Seventies and 80s pop music.
Nightingale first got here to the BBC in 1963 when she appeared as a panellist on Juke Field Jury, a programme through which presenters and visitors critiqued the pop music of the day.
When Radio 1 began in 1967, it was determined that no girls had been allowed to current. Nightingale's first utility for a job as a presenter was subsequently rejected outright.
Because of a favour from The Beatles, she was finally given a six-show trial in 1970, which led to a friendship with presenter John Peel and additional alternatives.
All through the Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties, Nightingale remained the one feminine presenter on Radio 1, till Janice Lengthy joined the group in 1982.
She continued to work at BBC radio all through the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, together with her weekly programme finally working for 52 years, finally shifting to Radio 2 and Radio 4.
On TV, she turned the presenter of The Outdated Gray Whistle Check in 1978, taking up from presenter Whispering Bob Harris. She launched new types of music to the programme till her departure in 1982.
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Artists she launched to BBC TV included The Ramones, Speaking Heads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gang of 4, Blondie, X-Ray Spex, The Specials, Insanity and U2.
On Radio 2 she introduced Everlasting Jukebox within the 2010s and in addition produced a number of radio documentaries. Her final look on Radio 1 was in December 2023, only a month earlier than her demise, when she introduced a Better of 2023 evaluation present.
Nightingale married twice in her life: first to journalist Gordon Thomas, whom she divorced in 1968 after having two youngsters with him, after which to Anthony 'Binky' Baker, whom she later divorced.
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