Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Mundell, expert on jungle warfare who served in Borneo – obituary "He added: "I wanted my own station here years ago; I was going to call it Magic Macclesfield and I had the money ready, but was told it couldn’t happen. 'Lord' Tim Hudson (left) and Daryl Hooper of the Seeds in 1967  "We’ll take the best of the British music scene to LA and bring Macclesfield the American hits. More ideas for you. We wanted to bring young people and women to cricket, to bring some colour to cricket. 'Lord' Tim Hudson, who has died aged 79, rode the coat-tails of the “British Invasion” of the 1960s to become a successful radio DJ in Los Angeles, but later became known for a brief, hapless stint as Ian Botham’s agent.Having made a fortune in property development in California in the 1970s, in 1984 he bought Birtles Old Hall, a Georgian mansion in Cheshire with its own cricket ground, and set out to bring glamour to the English game.Installing the former England captain Brian Close as his cricket manager, Hudson hoped that the “Birtles Bowl” would become the venue for a celebrity league: “Start the day with a brass band, have Pink Floyd playing throughout the match and then a calypso band from close of play until the early hours” was his vision.The scheme foundered after Mick Jagger did not respond to Hudson’s invitation to form an XI.

"Tim first brought rock and roll to his ten-acre Birtles Hall estate when he created his own rainbow-bright cricketing circus in the Eighties.The village will never forget the celebrity playground that hosted Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen concerts and was a mecca for cricket superstars such as Ian Botham and Viv Richards.Lord Tim had created his cricket dream – and moved his family into the ‘Rainbow Pavilion’ – but disagreements with the council left him stumped, and he ditched pavilion living for sunny California, where he had found fame as a DJ in the Sixties.The ground was sold to a mystery buyer last February.Tim added: "Birtles was a fun time. Brent Scowcroft, former fighter pilot who went on to serve three presidents – obituary "Lord Tim's attitude to cricket is best described by a quote which appeared in the Daily Express, when he said, 'I would love to see cricket totally orchestrated: Pink Floyd playing and the game going on.'" In the event, only one producer, Menahem Golan, agreed to meet them; and although Golan told the press beforehand that Botham had the potential to succeed Roger Moore as James Bond, the best he could manage when they met face to face was to pronounce: “he is better-looking than Tom Selleck.”Golan suggested that Botham stay in Los Angeles to take acting lessons, but England were due to tour the West Indies in three weeks’ time and Botham abandoned his Hollywood career. 4. ‘Lord’ Tim Hudson obituary Colourful chancer, disc jockey and agent who almost persuaded his client Ian Botham to give up cricket and become the next 007 Tim Hudson… WOLLASTONS BATSMAN TIM HUDSON IN ACTION 3/6/06 Cricket Cricket. Viv Richards Cricket Bat Latest Sports News Great Team Sports Games West Indies Somerset Picture Ideas Masters. Sports Photographers for 30 years "Lord Tim’s Canalside Community Radio show airs this Sunday (May 18), from 8pm to 10pm, at www.ccr-fm.co.uk.And the community radio crew will provide all the entertainment at Sunday’s Macclesfield Bikeathon. The days when Viv Richards and Ian Botham strutted their stuff at the Birtles Bowl in Cheshire are pale memories on the overgrown pitch. 'Lord' Tim Hudson at his Birtles Bowl cricket ground in the 1990s Credit: Alamy The scheme foundered after Mick Jagger did not respond to Hudson’s invitation to … Their first London gig, at the Ad-lib Club, was a success, but he was soon replaced and was reduced to working as a cleaner and contraceptive machine replenisher.At a party he met James Coburn, who told him: “You sound like the Beatles, man … You should be a disc jockey in America. Hudson, who is best remembered for managing Ian Botham, brought a touch of The Great Gatsby and hippie culture to the game with his panama hats, rainbow blazer and ponytail. We haven’t got a British DJ there.” The American embassy did not regard this as sufficient reason to grant him a visa, so he went to Canada instead.He wangled a job as a DJ at CKGM Radio in Montreal, where he played up his English background, broadcasting under his old schoolboy nickname of “Lord Tim”.Securing interviews with every major British artist from the Beatles down, and persuading the station to pay to bring the Rolling Stones to Montreal, he quickly made his reputation, and went on to take broadcasting jobs in San Diego and then Los Angeles. Tim has 3 jobs listed on their profile. The ground where Hudson's Hollywood XI took on the greats of Test cricket is now up for sale.

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