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Terry Lennaine was born in Devon. Part of his childhood was spent in Ruislip
in West London and also in Bedford and Leicester but most of his life has
been spent on Merseyside where he is a long established figure in local radio.
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Terry was well established in the club scene whilst still a teenager
and had a large and loyal following which had also attracted the eye of management
at BBC Radio Merseyside in Liverpool, very soon Terry was on the air with
his own weekly show. This programme was based around what Terry was playing
in the nightclubs and suddenly, unknown artists such as George Benson, Kool & The
Gang and Earth Wind & Fire were getting played on UK radio for the first
time.
The programme was called 'Keep On Truckin' which was the title of an
Eddie Kendricks song that had recently been a million seller in The USA.
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Terry spent 15 years with BBC Radio Merseyside during which he launched the
Radio Merseyside toy appeal, a joint idea by Terry and Billy Butler.
It was the first toy appeal on any local station anywhere in the UK. Something
that most local radio stations now do.
Terry also gave vital airplay to new artists
unheard of elsewhere and was the first radio DJ to give UK airplay to George
Benson, Billy Ocean, Lynx (David Grant), Heatwave, Tavares, Kool & The Gang
and many more. Terry also worked on a song recorded by Birmingham group Delegation,
that song was "Where
Is The Love We Used To Know" which was a UK top 20 hit and a number one
in Germany. This gave Terry the first gold disc of his career.
Terry's programme
on Radio Merseyside was the first to play a Prince track
in the same week Prince's debut album was released in the USA. In 1981 The Four
Tops released an album on Casablanca Records in the US. Following good feedback
about one particular track Terry contacted Phonogram and the song "When
She Was My Girl" was released in the UK and went straight into the charts.
Following the UK success, the song was released in the USA and was also a top
10 hit there. Terry was awarded another BPI disc award for the the song.
Into
the 1980's Terry gave the first ever radio play to Paul Hardcastles UK number
1 song "19" and
also worked with "Wham!" giving significant airplay to George Michael's
music before the group had any chart success.
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In the seventies, Terry started taking his club audience on arranged
tours to see artists such as Stevie Wonder and Earth Wind & Fire when
they were playing in Europe. Following one such tour to Paris to see Stevie
Wonder, Terry fell in love with the city and has been visiting it ever since,
with groups of people. Since the 70's, Terry has taken nearly 200 tours to
Paris and has a considerable knowledge of the city, with long established
contacts and friends who own and run restaurants in the city, these tours
have proved very popular.
In the early 80's, Terry Lennaine also started taking groups to The Far
East and to date has personally couriered 18 tours to Hong Kong, Bangkok,
Singapore and other destinations. Germany's Rhine Valley and Amsterdam have
also been regular excursions.
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In 1988,Terry joined the Liverpool commercial radio station, Radio City.
Terry presented the very popular 'Peaceful Hour' 'Downtown' and 'Be Bop Gold'
which all attracted large audiences. In the 90's when commercial radio stations
all split frequencies, Terry stayed on Radio City's AM service 'Radio City
Gold', which is now branded as 'Magic 1548', playing non stop music throughout
the North West and North Wales. Terry broadcast daily on Magic 1548 until
January 2001.
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Terry can now be heard daily on Merseyside's KCR 106.7 fm from
10am until 3pm.
In December 2000, Terry started a project which had been in the planning
stage for some time. Seven Acres Studios is a custom built radio studio which
enables Terry to make programmes, ads or announcements for radio and TV stations
worldwide. This state of the art ISDN facility allows programme material
to be transmitted around the world in perfect quality using existing telephone
lines. Terry will be making commercials and programmes for stations in the
UK and around the world. Terry's voice has been heard in every 'Moto' Motorway
service areas, Harry Ramsden, Burger King, and ASDA stores nationwide.
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Terry Lennaine has also been seen in various TV programmes including
Carla Lane's 'Bread' where Terry played 'Stan', the husband of Joey Boswell's
girlfriend 'Roxy', Terry appeared in a number of episodes. He has also appeared
on 'This Morning' with Richard and Judy.
Terry Lennaine is married to Jay and has four children - Martin, Catherine,
Terry and Chelsea.
They live in Thingwall on the Wirral and Terry operates his very successful
Mobile Disco/Roadshow which plays at venues throughout the region each week,
also doing wedding receptions and other functions.
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