Tommy Vance

Acting

Tommy Vance

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Jul 11, 1940 (85 years old)
Death date
Mar 06, 2005

Tommy Vance

Known For

More Bad News
0h 51m
Movie 1988

More Bad News

Four years after they were last the subject of a...

The Story of the Kinks
0h 54m
Movie 1985

The Story of the Kinks

Discover the inside story of the most influential English rock...

Biography

Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (11 July 1940 – 6 March 2005), known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster. He was an important factor in the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal, along with London-based disc jockey Neal Kay, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was one of the first radio hosts in the United Kingdom to broadcast hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. He used a personal tag-line of "TV on the radio". His voice was heard by millions around the world announcing the Wembley Stadium acts at Live Aid in 1985.