Lord Tim Hudson

George Timothy Hudson ( Brumwell; 11 February 1940 – 14 December 2019), widely known as Lord Tim Hudson, was an English DJ. He worked in Los Angeles for KFWB during the mid 1960s and was the manager of The Seeds and The Lollipop Shoppe. He was also a voice actor, an artist and a sports manager, notably of the cricketer Ian Botham. His obituary in The Times characterised him as a "colourful chancer". Biography Hudson was born George Timothy Brumwell on 11 February 1940 in Prestbury, Cheshire, and was educated in Cumberland and at Strathallan School, Perthshire. His father, Thomas Brumwell, served in Bomber Command in World War II and died in a raid over Belgium in 1944. In 1948, his widowed mother married Henry Hudson, who owned a cotton business. Tim Hudson moved to London in 1961 before spending time in France, and in 1963 returned to London to work as a trainee executive for Prestige pressure cooker manufacturers. He resolved to work in the music industry and became a member of the fashionable "Chelsea Set". On a visit to Birmingham he offered to manage The Moody Blues, and then, according to his own account, introduced the band to Decca Records in London, though his role is disputed. Hudson then moved to Montreal, Canada, where, as "Lord Tim of Liverpool", he became a DJ on station CKGM. When The Beatles embarked on their 1965 North American concert tour, radio station KCBQ in San Diego employed Hudson. He described himself as a record producer who claimed to know The Beatles personally, and to have helped discover the Moody Blues. Hudson made broadcasts publicising the "Fab Four"'s appearances in the San Diego area. Using his contacts in England, Hudson managed to get permission to travel with the group prior to their concert in San Diego, and to file reports to be aired exclusively on KCBQ. However, it was said of him that: He used his suave British accent to promote himself and became particularly popular among women. His problems surfaced, despite his claims to the contrary, when he could not do the simplest of tasks such as working the controls, playing records, or punching in ads. Having never before been on the radio, all he could do was sit in the studio and talk on the microphone. His brief stint at KCBQ, in terms of radio work, was one of the station’s worst staffing disasters.