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Obituaries for Two QPR Supporters (RIP)
« Thread Started on Nov 29, 2008, 11:52am »

Presumably some QPR supporters knew him.

The Guardian/Bob Woffinden

Steve Rose - Cheerful, witty BBC radio and TV producer

Steve Rose, who has died aged 59 of pancreatic ***unfortunate, worked at the BBC for 26 years as a current affairs producer in both radio and television and, ultimately, as executive editor of BBC News.

For someone who was to stay there so long, he was, colleagues recalled, refreshingly un-BBC when he arrived, at a time when the corporation was on the cusp of change between the buttoned-up old ways and the coming glasnost. The characteristics that spring to mind when thinking of him are, as one BBC friend said, "laughter, cheerfulness, great wit and a sharp mind".

He was born in Wembley, north London, to parents who were commercial travellers selling women's clothing. After school at Latymer Upper in Hammersmith, in his gap year before university, Steve joined them, selling dresses to boutiques. After reading psychology at Sheffield University, he went on to a graduate journalism training scheme and worked on the Reading Evening Post, before joining the BBC in 1973. He did a stint on Newsbeat (Radio 1), before becoming a producer on the Today programme (Radio 4).

In 1979, he produced Today's first live broadcasts from Beijing, with Libby Purves as presenter. The production team's anxieties, which included not knowing whether the new satellite link would work, now seem unimaginable, but at the time it was a significant editorial breakthrough for the BBC. If there was a problem, it was only that the technical perfection of the broadcasts made it difficult to believe they were in China at all.

After a year as the Today programme's New York producer, he switched to television. He arrived at Nationwide, the BBC's ailing weekday programme, just in time, as he said, to help finish it off. His worst moment was being goosed in the lift by Larry Grayson.

In 1985, Steve helped to establish Watchdog with the presenter Lynne Faulds Wood and was editor for three years. The programme won several awards for consumer journalism. "All those happy hours," he reflected, "hiding behind Lynne as we chased minor villains down the street."

He was then in charge of the main evening news bulletin, the Nine O'Clock News (as it then was), during which time the programme won Royal Television Society (RTS) and Bafta awards.

By 1999 he was executive editor of BBC News when, dismayed by one internal reorganisation after another, he took early retirement and started a media consultancy company.

I had first met Steve when I bumped into him in 1967 during freshers' week at Sheffield. He was from London and was probably the first Jewish person I met (I had had a sheltered schooling in Lichfield). He seemed so effortlessly cool, I thought I could never hope to become a friend - which was to reckon without his immense generosity of spirit.

Several years later in 1980, one rainy autumn afternoon in north London, he and Mary (his girlfriend from Sheffield) and my wife and I got married together. Seemingly thrilled by the prospect of a double wedding, the register office staff had put out countless rows of chairs. They were clearly downcast when just the four of us turned up.

In June this year he was told that he had pancreatic ***unfortunate and, when the diagnosis confirmed in July that it was well advanced, he opted against any treatment, to squeeze the maximum quality out of whatever life he had left. A stalwart Queen's Park Rangers supporter, he drove to Stevenage to watch QPR play a pre-season friendly.

His overriding concern was for everyone else, and in particular his family. To help stem the tide of distressed phone calls and emails, he started a blog, Steve's Last Words, with a brief that echoed the BBC's: to inform, educate and entertain.

Readers needed a strong stomach for black humour. It was achingly honest. "I'm dying of ***unfortunate," he wrote, "but I'm still the same bloke. I choose to deal with this head on. It wouldn't suit everybody." The blog led to a radio interview with Jeremy Vine, but he abandoned it earlier this month when he felt his lifelong capacity to entertain was, finally, beyond him.

He is survived by Mary and their two children, Daniel and Katy.

• Stephen Andrew Rose, radio and television journalist, born April 20 1949; died November 21 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/28/obituary-steve-rose-bbc-producer

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Re: Obituary for a QPR Supporter (RIP)
« Reply #1 on Nov 29, 2008, 12:30pm »

I was vaguely aware of the blog but, didn't know he was a Ranger.

May he Rest In Peace

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« Reply #2 on Dec 1, 2008, 7:59pm »

And another QPR Supporter's Obituary

Johnny Marr, Bono, Tom Waits pay tribute to music PR Rob Partridge
Monday 1 December 2008, by Dom

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Music industry figures including Johnny Marr, Tim Burgess, Bono, Tom Waits and Marianne Faithfull have paid tribute to Rob Partridge, the legendary music PR who died last Wednesday (November 26).

Partridge started his career as a journalist, writing for the likes of Melody Maker, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, before becoming head of press at Island Records in 1977.

With punk and reggae rejuvenating the UK music scene, Island Records became a major force in the late ’70s, and Partridge worked with many of the era’s biggest artists.

He was instrumental in the organisation of Bob Marley’s iconic One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica in 1978, where Marley managed to unite the two leaders of Jamaica’s main rival political parties.

An avid Queens Park Rangers supporter all his life, Partridge would also organise kickabouts for Marley when he came to London.

Famously, Partridge convinced Island Records boss Chris Blackwell to sign U2 after taking him to see the band in a south London pub in 1980.

Speaking of Partridge’s death, Blackwell said: "He was one of the most honourable men I have met in my life."

After leaving Island Records, Partridge set up the public relations and management company Coalition in 1991.

Artists on the label’s roster have included The Charlatans, The Libertines, The Strokes, Billy Bragg and Joe Strummer. Partridge was also involved instigating The Nationwide Mercury Prize.

PR oversaw Bob Marley, discovered U2 and helped start Mercury Prize

Tributes for Partridge have flooded in since he passed away last week aged 60 after a two-year battle with bowel and liver ***unfortunate. He is survived by his wife Tina.

The Charlatans’ frontman Tim Burgess said: "Rob and Tina welcomed The Charlatans and me personally into their family. Rob would play us inspirational records and Tina would make us tea. I was very proud to be friends with them, I remember Rob’s smile when he turned us on to something we had never heard before. Life for me is all about great records and magic moments. I am so proud to say that I have shared both with Rob. My heart goes out to Tina."

Johnny Marr, who is on Coalition’s roster, said: "Rob was a lovely guy, gentle and polite, but not above good devilish humour. He loved soulful music and working with soulful artists, because he was soulful himself."

Tom Waits, writing in a joint tribute along with his wife Kathleen Brennan, called Partridge a "pioneering navigator".

"Rob was a great man, a dear friend to the whole family and a pioneering navigator who we worked with for 25 years," they said. "Our hearts go out to his loving wife, Tina. Here on earth a very bright and warm light has gone out but there is a strange new bird in heaven...the Rob Partridge."

Bono thanked Partridge for discovering and nurturing U2: "Rob Partridge was the first person in the British music industry to sing our praises. He not only had an eye for upcoming talent, he was a nurturer...a person who would educate you about the kind of obstacles you were going to meet and how to get over them...a rare human being."

Marianne Faithfull also paid her respects, saying Partridge was "one of the greatest men I have known and a great man to work with. I don’t know what I will do without him, we have been friends for so long".
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Re: Obituaries for Two QPR Supporters (RIP)
« Reply #3 on Dec 1, 2008, 10:03pm »

Worked with Rob a few times down the years.
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« Reply #4 on Dec 2, 2008, 3:20pm »

Great touching piece.

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