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The rise and fall of Swinging Simon
In the mid-1960s, Simon Dee, who has died at the age of 74, was one of the biggest stars in the country. But just a few years later, he suffered a sudden and spectacular fall from fame.
Dee had cameos in the films The Italian Job and Doctor In Trouble |
After Dee hit TV screens in 1967, he was a household name leading a playboy life.
His Dee Time show was watched by 15 million people and his casual, cocky, manner made him the embodiment of the Swinging Sixties.
In the process, his style paved the way for future chat show hosts from Michael Parkinson to Chris Evans.
But by the start of the following decade, it was all over.
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"Everything just disappeared," he later said.
Dee went to public school in Shrewsbury with John Peel, before another schoolfriend decided to launch a radio station on a ship in 1964.
Dee was the first recruit and the first voice on the first offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline.