 Welcome
to the Chris Needs web site.
You can browse through Chris
scrapbook, find out about the Chris Needs Hospital Appeal, buy his CDs online,
leave him messages on the message board and check-out some of Chris' favourite
places in the world.
And do come back regularly - there are more
features coming VERY soon - for example there is a listing of
Diary
Dates - personal appearances, shows, etc., so you can find when you might have a
chance to meet the dude in person. Also check out the page for
Chris' friends, with pictures and links to their websites.
Have a look round, and see you soon!
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& In Case You're
Wondering what this is all about...
Chris Needs - M.B.E. Radio Presenter and actor,
Stage performer and piano teacher. Compere and figurehead of a registered
charity. School music teacher and accomplished
classical pianist. Raconteur and award-winning show business personality.
Among his friends he numbers both world-renowned stars and
the ordinary person alike, and is a real friend to the thousands of his BBC Radio
Wales listeners who tune in to his show every week night, or are among the
40,000+ members of the 'Chris Needs
Friendly Garden'.
 Since first getting a lift in Richard Burton's
car while a youngster (Chris lived in Cwmafan, the next village to Burton's birthplace
of Pontrhydyfen near Port Talbot), He took the plunge himself and entered show
business as a keyboard player - at one time accompanying Bonnie Tyler (who's also
a regular listener to Chris' shows).
When Welsh Language TV Soap 'Pobol y Cwm'
needed an actor to play the part of a hairdresser, Chris decided he fitted the bill and
was invited to audition. In a 1995 interview, he told 'The Western Mail' newspaper, "I
went up thinking I was well in for the part of the hairdresser and camped it up - but for
some strange reason I ended up with the part of a detective sergeant!"
 He entered the world of radio broadcasting when he
heard on the grapevine that the then newly-formed Touch AM Radio Station needed
new presenters. Having made a demo tape in his front room, using a ghetto blaster with
"disgusting sound quality", he sent it in to the station.
The rest is history - he became Touch AM's most
popular presenter and moved a few years ago to BBC Radio Wales. Having hosted an
immensely popular afternoon show, he has now moved to present the late show, and has
single-handedly taken his slot to the top.
In the 2005 New Years Honours List, he was announced as
M.B.E. for his services to broadcasting and Charity in Wales, and he was
invested into the Order by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on June 22nd, 2005.
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