English - Celebrity | October 31, 1926 - October 29, 2011
'Top of the Pops' is fun. It's escapism. It's a laugh. It's a rhythm; it gets your foot tapping. And that's all it is.
Jimmy Savile
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If you are going to work for the first time, keep your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. Listen, watch - and don't forget what you see.
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A Yorkshire coal mine during the war was my first workplace. I was 18, and when I was called up, I thought I'd go into the RAF. But my number got pulled out of Ernest Bevin's hat, and I went down the pit as a Bevin boy to replace all the able-bodied miners who went to war.
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I tend to believe everybody.
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I've a Scottish estate and places in Leeds, Bournemouth, Scarborough, Regent's Park. I'm at home in them all.
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Ever since I started playing records, it's been such a fabulous life. The idea of going back down the pits would be a nightmare.
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Early 'Top of the Pops' was something nobody else had done. 'Radio 1' hadn't been invented. It was a life of constant excitement for all of us involved. It was a pop phenomenon.
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I've kept too busy through the years to stop and take inspiration from anyone.
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As soon as you stop moving - to sit down and watch TV or whatnot - you're wasting life.
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I don't have much interest in what the kids think of me.
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I like to make the most out of every single second.
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I was born in 1926, right. In 1939, war broke out. And that has a tremendous effect on everybody's life because the basic principle of a human being is whether they're gonna be alive or dead in the morning. Now with the war on, you can't guarantee that, especially living in a city like Leeds where we had air raids and all that.
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