Paul Baskerville

Paul Baskerville (born 3 March 1961) is an English radio DJ on the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).

Paul Baskerville
Born (1961-03-03) 3 March 1961
Manchester, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationRadio DJ
Children1
Websitehttp://www.paul-baskerville.de/

In the last several months, he gained international popularity for eventually playing The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet on his program in the early 1980s.

Biography

Baskerville was born and grew up in Manchester.[1] As a teenager, he joined the punk band The Limit. He moved to Germany in 1980.[2] Initially, he worked for Karstadt.[1] He started working for NDR in 1982 with features about music from England and especially Manchester. In 1981, he got his first weekly show, Musik für junge Leute[3][2] which he moderated every Friday from 13:20 to 14:30.[3] He also moderated the shows "No Wave",[4][3][2] "Kopfhörer",[3][2] and "Offbeat".[3][2] Over the years, he got different slots. He did also shows for Radio Bremen, Deutschlandfunk and DT64 and reportages for Arte. Currently, he is writing a music column for the weekly paper Freitag ("Friday"). Since January 3, 2003, he is broadcasting the show Nachtclub[3] ("nightclub") on NDR Info on Saturday from 0:05 to 2:00. One of the most important record stores for his program Musik für junge Leute was the now defunct unterm durchschnitt based in Hamburg.[1]

Paul Baskerville is married and has a daughter named Emely.[1] He lives in Hamburg.

Baskerville's program Musik für junge Leute ("music for young people") is thought to have been the show from which a German teenager taped an unidentified new wave song between 1982 and 1984 that has become a viral internet phenomenon dubbed "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet".[5][6][7]

gollark: Are you aware of "heat conduction"?
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Which makes it nightmarishly complex to do anything.
gollark: In some cases you need to unglue the screen or something crazy.
gollark: Yes, it's just much harder and requires expensive equipment/

References
  1. NDR Hamburg Journal from December 22, 2012: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTRVxY9uXI
  2. "Paul Baskerville". www.ndr.de (in German). 2020-05-25. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  3. "It's History – Paul's frühere Sendungen beim NDR | Nachtclub mit Paul Baskerville" (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  4. SPIEGEL, Christian Gödecke, DER. "Radiomoderator Paul Baskerville - DER SPIEGEL - Geschichte". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  5. Knörer, Ekkehard (2019-09-27). "Wer kennt diesen Song?". www.zeit.de. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  6. "80er-Song lässt User verzweifeln: „Most mysterious song on the internet"? Spuren nach Deutschland". www.rotenburger-rundschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  7. Ulrich, Viola (2019-09-11). "Mysteriöser Song: Wer kennt dieses Lied aus den 80er-Jahren?". DIE WELT. Retrieved 2020-08-17.


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