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Your support makes all the difference.Radio 1 opened for business exactly 30 years ago next Tuesday
Put your hands together
And gives thanks to Radio 1
For lid-erally several years
Of mandatory fun
For wacky, zany, kooky guys
Dropped on their heads at birth
A vast controlled explosion
Of unmitigated mirth
The Roadshow was the flagship
In this fleet of arrant charm
For men who gave out hats and pens
Then went home to a farm
The sonic sugar Prozac
Beamed across the factory floor
By guys who shared our troubles
But got paid a little more
The posses and the jobhunts
The helplines and the plugs
The awful realisation that
Their listeners might take drugs
Then slow but sure improvement
Which didn't really hurt
It wasn't broke. You fixed it
Gee. Thank you, Mr Birt
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