Mike Read Biography
Mike Read is an English radio DJ, author, journalist, and television host. Read has worked as a broadcaster since 1976, most notably as a DJ for BBC Radio 1 and as a television host for the music chart show Top of the Pops, the children’s show Saturday Superstore, and the music panel game Pop Quiz.
How old is Mike Read? – Age
He is 76 years old as of 1 March 2023. He was born in 1947 in Bury, United Kingdom.
Mike Read Family – Education
Mike is the sole child of a bartender. When he was a baby, his family relocated from Manchester to Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. He went to Woking Grammar School and then to a sixth-form college. Later in life, Read worked as an estate agent and released music under different monikers, including Mickey Manchester.
Mike Read Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $9 million.
Mike Read Books
The Aldermoor Poems, Elizabethan Dragonflies, A Room With Books, and New Poems for Old Paintings are among Read’s poetry collections. He edited and provided biographies for the two best-selling poetry volumes, 100 Favourite Poems and 100 Favourite Humorous Poems, and contributed to several titles in the Poets’ England series. He’s also the author of two crime novels. Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke was published in 1997.
Mike Read Stalker
Read was stalked by someone who had changed her name to Blue Tulip Rose Read and thought she was married to him. Rose was originally Carol Ballard and was from Welwyn Garden City. She appeared in the 1996 Channel 4 film I’m Your Number One Fan, directed by Jaine Green. The film was part of Channel 4’s “Fame Factor” season, which explored the darker side of celebrity. Rose was one of the film’s most honest interviews. She was filmed on her way to Classic FM’s offices and while she penned “love letters” to Read. According to the video, Rose had been sending vulgar and threatening letters to Read for many years.
Mike Read Breakfast Show
Read began anchoring the breakfast show on Downforce Radio on April 12, 2021, from 7 to 10 a.m. Read began his breakfast show on August 1, 2022, but with an audience from Sunshine Radio Online, in a dual broadcast-type format.
Mike Read Radio 1
In 1991, Mike Read left Radio 1 and moved to Capital Gold in London, where he introduced his Mike Read Assortment on Sunday evenings. He then joined Exemplary FM, where he introduced an end-of-the-week series and a workday breakfast moderator. In 1999, he introduced the morning meal show on Jazz FM in the north of Britain, and in 2001, he joined Soul FM in Chichester. Somewhere in the range of 2003 and 2004, Read introduced a Saturday morning opening on the Enchanted organization, and in May 2005, he turned into the workday morning moderator on Huge L 1395, a station displayed on the 1960s privateer radio broadcast. In November 2008, he got some downtime from Enormous L to introduce the 3 pm – 7 pm ‘drive-time’ show on KCFM for seven days.
In November 2009, Read started facilitating an early-in-the-day space on TotalStar in the West of Britain. He got back to Huge L with a day-to-day space from 8 am to 12 pm, Monday-Friday. In 2011, he facilitated the Brilliant Hour on More Radio (Swindon and Wiltshire), previously Absolute Star Wiltshire. Peruse was heard on Sorcery 1548 in the north of Britain, where he introduced their end-of-the-week breakfast series on Saturdays and Sundays from 7 am – 10 am. He additionally introduced the midday opening on BBC Radio Berkshire from 1:00/3:00 pm and 4 pm until Walk 2015.
In April 2018, Read was the primary voice heard on the new web radio broadcast Joined DJs, where he facilitated the station’s morning meal opening on non-weekend days from 7-9 am. From November 2019, he facilitated the workday breakfast space on London and south-east Spot station Rare Music Radio for a long time, however, kept on introducing infrequent shows on Joined DJs. Peruse left to join the new line-up of Country Radio UK from 4 January 2021, and was supplanted by Neil Fox in April.