TREVOR NELSON
“You can blag it all you like, but ultimately music chooses you.” Trevor Nelson MBE is musing on the all-consuming nature of his first love. “You can say you like something, because it’s the done thing to say, but when you’re in your house you’re singing ABBA or The Carpenters, because that’s what you really like. Once it gets in your head, you can’t escape.”
Spreading the word about music seems to be hard-wired into his psyche. He’s served over three decades as a curator of immaculate music selections. The ambition has been a constant since the heady times when Kiss FM was still a pirate station. Founded by a group of soul-boys in 1985, it served up a selection of music normally ignored by commercial and public sector broadcasters. Nelson naturally gravitated to the station, followed by other luminaries like Steve Jackson and Tim Westwood. As hip-hop, house and UK soundsystem music began to break through, Kiss
