Arnold Frolows
Arnold Frolows (15 January 1950 – 12 January 2025) was an Australian radio personality best known as music director at the Australian radio station triple j.[1][2]
Life and career
[edit]Frolows started his career in music in 1970, as a manager of Virgin record stores in London.[citation needed]
After returning to Australia in late 1974 he was hired as one of the foundation staff of Double Jay in Sydney, which began broadcasting in January 1975. He managed the record library and programming of the station. He temporarily returned to the United Kingdom where he was, among other things, head of A&R, at Virgin Records UK.[citation needed]
In 1983, he re-joined triple j, where he took on the role of music director, a position that he held until his retirement from the station in 2003. During this time he also hosted Ambience, a program focussing on ambient music until the late 1980s. During his last few years at the station, he was criticised in the music media as being "too old" to work at a youth station.[2]
After leaving Triple J, Frolows remained with the ABC to become a programmer for the new digital radio station ABC DiG,[3] then Music Director at ABC JAZZ.[citation needed]
Frolows died at Mona Vale Hospice in Sydney, on 12 January 2025, at the age of 74, less than a month after having been diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Condon, Dan (13 January 2025). "Arnold Frolows, long time triple j music director, dies at 74". ABC News. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ a b "'New' Triple J goes alternative". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 May 2003. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ^ "Three digital stars are born". Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
External links
[edit]- Arnold Frollows at IMDb
- Arnold Frolows discography at Discogs