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Holness was one of the first actors to portray James Bond, in a 1956 South African radio adaptation of Moonraker, and subsequently he presented a regular show on Radio Luxembourg, but he is perhaps better known as a British game show presenter.

In 1961 Holness became the host of UK game show Take a Letter , and in the 1980s and early 1990s he presented the British version of Blockbusters, for which he is probably most famous.

Between 1975 and 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor he was co-presenter with Douglas Cameron of the AM Programme on London's LBCLBC Air Date October 8 1973 Frequency 97. 3 MHz Broadcast Area London Style News Group Chrysalis Group LBC (originally the London Broadcasting Company is Britain's first commercial independent local radio station, providing a service of news and informati radio station. He originally joined the station as an airborne traffic reporter.

In autumn 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja he hosted Yorkshire TelevisionYorkshire Television Limited is the ITV contractor for Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding areas. It went on air in 1968. Yorkshire Television is often known on air as YTV. Its logo since 1968 has been a chevron and the identification theme was based's big-budget gameshow flop Raise the Roof before becoming the chairman of a revived Call My BluffCall My Bluff is a British game show between two teams of three contestants, based on the US radio game show Says You . The point of the game is for the teams to take it in turn to provide three definitions of an obscure word, only one of which was correc on the BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation BBC is primarily a national publicly-funded broadcaster based in the United Kingdom, which also has some international services. Some of the international services (such as BBC cable TV in America, Canada and elsewhere.

Holness was the subject of an urban myth, initiated by broadcaster Stuart Maconie , who while writing for the New Musical ExpressThe New Musical Express (better known as the NME is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop, claimed (untruthfully) that Holness played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's song Baker Street. The true performer was Rafael Ravenscroft. The story clearly appealed to Holness' sense of humour as he has often played along with the myth, and has also at various times jokingly claimed to be the lead guitarist on Derek and the Dominoes' Layla and the mysterious individual putting Elvis Presley off his stride on the (in)famous "laughing version" of Are You Lonesome Tonight?.

Holness now lives in Pinner, London, England.