When Scott Mills greeted listeners for his first show on BBC Radio 1, less than 10% of UK households had the internet, Mark Zuckerberg was only 14 and the Radio 1 playlist contained Rollercoaster by B*Witched, Girlfriend by Billie Piper and Would You (Go to Bed With Me) by Touch & Go.
Mills wrote in his autobiography about his 1998 debut that he had “no personality” and spent most of the time between songs reading out the station phone number over and over again. Even so, no one phoned in and he expected to be sacked within a few months.
