Johnnie Walker spent 58 years on air before he finally hung up his headphones in October this year due to his ailing health. He had been previously diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)

Veteran radio DJ Johnnie Walker, who worked for the BBC for more than 50 years, retired in October after being diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Radio presenter Johnnie Walker has been described as a "broadcasting legend", following his death aged 79. The DJ died on Tuesday, two months after calling time on his 58-year career because of ill health.

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Veteran radio host Johnnie Walker has died at the age of 79, his wife Tiggy has confirmed in a statement read out on BBC Radio 2 by his friend Bob Harris

Johnnie Walker, a former BBC Radio 2 DJ known for hosting the "Sounds of the 70s" show, died Monday. He was 79. The news was announced live on the station by Bob Harris, who took over Johnnie Walker's role on the radio show back in October.

Johnnie Walker, one of the BBC’s longest-serving radio DJs, has died. Walker died earlier today at 79 following a long battle with lung disease, two months after calling time on his radio career. Tributes flooded in from BBC top brass.

Johnnie Walker, who has died aged 79, was a rebellious, scandal-prone but immensely popular radio disc jockey for more than half a century, making his name in the 1960s on Radio Caroline, the pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship off the Essex coast,