Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
| Maude Adams, Actress (1872) |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet (1836) |
| Mose Allison, Musician (1927) |
| Gordon W. Allport, Psychologist (1897) |
| Daisy Bates, Activist (1914) |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author (1929) |
| Daniel J. Evans, Politician (1925) |
| Calista Flockhart, Actress (1964) |
| David Hackworth, Soldier (1930) |
| Lee Haney, Athlete (1959) |
| Andre Bazin, Critic (1958) |
| Alexander Calder, Sculptor (1976) |
| Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1855) |

