Mike Read

Mike Read (b. 01 March 1947) is a British radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and TV presenter. He is best known as a a BBC Radio 1 DJ, from 1978 to 1991, and as a presenter of Top of the Pops, Pop Quiz and Saturday Superstore, all on BBC One during the 1980s.

He is also a musician and songwriter, He is also one of the founder editors of the UK chart reference book Guinness Book of British Hit Singles.

Read is considered to have been the Radio 1 DJ who provoked the ban of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood single Relax in early 1984, after having played the single on his morning show. The song had already been performed on Top of the Pops. After the ban it subsequently went to no.1 in the UK.