John has worked in the radio industry for nearly 22 years. He caught 'the radio bug' at the age of 13 when his first radio broadcast went out on the pirate Radio Alaska. A string of pirate station slots followed including the likes of Radio Jackie, Radio Free Britain, Radio Free London, London Music Radio, Sun Radio and Radio Telstar South. At 17, the call he had been waiting for came from Radio Caroline asking him to join the team. John was ecstatic and swiftly packed his bags but was stopped by his father on the way out of the door who insisted that he remained 'on land' to complete college.

John contented himself with some production work for Caroline and relations with his father became somewhat frosty for several years! John's professional radio break came in 1977 when he joined LBC as a production assistant. In 1980 he got his fist regular weekday shift at DevonAir Radio in Exeter where he remained for nearly ten years. Since then, he has broadcast on numerous different stations including Blue Danube Radio (ORF, Austria), Country 1035, County Sound Radio, Lantern FM, Pennine Radio, Pirate FM, Radio X-tra (SBC, Switzerland), Radio Mercury, Sky One Television and Talk Radio UK. Nowadays, when John is not broadcasting on European Klassik Rock, he can be found working as a Director of RadioWorks (Associates) Ltd - a company which he founded in 1994. The business is involved in assisting radio stations on virtually any aspect of running a radio station and specialises in making new licence applications. RadioWorks has been involved in four winning applications since its inception. Some 25 years after John's aspirations for a job on Caroline were curtailed, his father muses that, "John might have got radio out of his system if I'd let him go." Somehow we doubt it!

Martyn Blunt first broadcast 14 years ago when he joined Radio Mercury. Since then he has presented on Talk Radio UK, BBC Local Radio, Fame 1521 and now European Klassik Rock. His interest in music began as a mobile DJ - initially with basic equipment for family parties. Later he turned the mobile roadshow into an art form and now organises huge public events. For the past six years he has been the driving force behind "The Rock & Roll Ball" which raises tens of thousand of pounds for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Martyn has also appeared in several pantomimes and is on the Advisory Committee for the media studies department at Kingston College.

Dave's legendary career started on board the pirate ship Radio London in 1964. For three years he developed his name as one of the most famous names in broadcasting. His reputation on Big L quickly earned Dave a place at the BBC. Between 1967 and 1970 he could regularly be heard on Radio 1, 2 and 4. In 1970 he wrote his first screenplay 'The Radio Programme' for HTV and NBC. This was followed by a year spell working in paradise as Assistant Programme Controller at Radio Monte Carlo International. From 1973 he began his 22 year association with Capital Radio. During this time he acted as Production Director and Presenter and served on secondment in various senior capacities at Radio West, Bristol and Invicta Radio in Kent.

Somehow, during this hectic lifestyle, Dave has also found the time to produce 'At Last it's Hogmanay' for Channel 4 and to write 2 novels. His third novel 'King of Clubs' came out in 1995. Over the last three years Dave has provided presentation and broadcast consultative services to Thanet Local Radio, Lite AM in Manchester and London's RTL Country 1035. Since 1996 Dave has been a pioneering force behind the development of European Klassik Rock.

Randall grew up in Clevelend, Ohio - historically one of America's greatest radio cities. He graduated with a BA in Telecommunications and worked for a number of stations in the states before eventually coming to the UK working for the American media company SRO in 1978. By 1984 he was back on the radio again - this time presenting in German for Radio-B1 in Berlin. Next Randall spent some time aboard the legendary Radio Caroline where his popularity reached almost cult status. This led to an invitation from Capital Gold to become one of its founder broadcasters in 1988. Since leaving Capital in the mid 90's Randall has not only worked locally on one of the newer radio stations for London, Country 1035AM (where he helped the original management get the station up and running), but also nationally for Virgin Radio.

Randall's roots are firmly in radio, which will always be his first love. However, he has also achieved considerable success in the world of television for the likes of Carlton TV, The Discovery Channel and The Box cable station. Randall has numerous other interests and talents and has compiled his own selection of classic Doo Wop songs for CD release and promoted live Rock'n'Roll concerts. He runs his own production company, Pocket Money Productions Ltd, and has been involved in several book projects. He is currently writing a book about the Obersalzberg-Berchtesgarden area of Germany.

Martin Turner
Guest Presenter

Martin Turner has worked as a Radio Presenter since 1978 when he joined the Gateway Hospital Broadcasting Service (Dover & Deal's Hospital Radio) serving for 20 years.

He has presented Rock Shows on Atlanta Radio (49mb shortwave), Radio Boulogne Littoral (Boulogne France), White Cliffs Sound (Dover) Shepway Sound (Folkestone) & Coastline FM (Dover) where he was also Station Admin Manager / Ad Traffic.

Martin joined European Klassik Rock in August 1997, before the Station went on air. Recording / editing some 1400 tracks from CD to MD. He was tech-op for approximately 30 hours of Test Transmissions including the last hour before EKR was officially launched. Martin was the main tech-op of the Rosko Show / Klassik Rock Jukebox before being given a regular evening “slot”.

“I will always look back on the EKR days and remember how passionate I was about the station.” quotes Martin.