Henry Zebrowski

Yeah.

And Jimmy Savile was on top of every trend as it came on.

He was on top of skiffle.

He was on top of rock and roll.

All of this stuff, Jimmy Savile knew exactly how to package it and how to deliver it to teenagers.

By 1959, Savile was invited onto the BBC for the first time as a judge on a show called Jukebox Jury, in which four panelists would judge new music as a hit or a miss.

Savile was well-received as a personality.

So the next year, he was offered a test spot through Decca Records, one of the biggest record labels in England.

You know, that was the Stones label.

Yeah.

offered a test spot as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg.

It just used to be easier to get jobs in entertainment.

Yeah, well, now this is a big get for Jimmy Savile, because Radio Luxembourg was the only station that continuously played the pop music beloved by British teenagers at the time.

This was 1960, so we're talking Elvis, Chubby Checker, Everly Brothers, Link Wray, Dwayne Eddy, all the cool shit that the kids loved.

All right, don't get lost, no dogs.

Yay!

I had to pull that back so much.

You have no idea how hard I had to pull back on this section.

And so after Jimmy Savile was given a permanent spot as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, he was primed to be the voice that brought bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles to the ears of young people across the United Kingdom when those bands started releasing hits a couple years later.

And really, think about the power of that.