Peter Powell (DJ) of the annual Montreux Rock Festival and for his high-profile relationship with fellow Radio 1 DJ Janice Long between October 1984 and July 1985. Since leaving the station he has not returned to radio and has concentrated on building his management company (James Grant Media Group) with his business partner Russ Lindsay and other financial activities, which have proved successful. Peter Powell (DJ) Peter James Barnard-Powell (born 24 March 1951) is a former English disc jockey, popular on BBC Radio 1 in the late 1970s and 1980s, who has a second career in talent management. Powell was educated at Uppingham
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