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| name        = Sir Jimmy Savile
| image       = Jimmy Savile PICT6249a.jpg
| image_size  = 150px
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| birth_name  = James Wilson Vincent Savile 
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1926|10|31}}
(contracted; show full)ortal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/03/17/nosplit/ftwdet17.xml Family detective: Jimmy Savile - Telegraph<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was a [[Bevin Boy]], drafted during [[World War II]] to work as a [[coal miner]]. Having started playing records in dance halls in the early 40s, Savile was effectively the first ever [[DJ]]; the first person (according to his autobiography) to use [[two turntables and a microphone]], which he did at the Grand Records Ball at the Guardbridge Hotel in 1947
[.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/guesteditors/story/0,14481,1195509,00.html].culture/2004/apr/20/guesteditors2 |title=Harland Miller on Jimmy Savile: inventor of hip-hop style - Culture  - The Guardian |publisher=guardian.co.uk |accessdate=2008-07-28 |last=Miller |first=Harland }}</ref> Indeed, Savile is widely acknowledged as being one of the first (perhaps THE first) to use twin turntables for continuous play of music, thus pioneering the concept of DJing as we know it today. [http://www.djhistory.com/bb/displayStory.php?id=57&group=m_general][http://www.djawards.com/en/history.php]The book 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: 100 Years of the Disc Jockey' bears this out. 

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