Certainly back in the day, the DJ was revered by the young audience who aspired to changing places across the record decks etc.
Another kind of hero was the radio dj.
As a teenager, in South Yorkshire, the main northern soul show was radio hallam 's soul shotgun, with one John Green as host.
Roll forward 30 years or so and I got a call out of the blue about attending a sportsman's evening from a guy called..........
John Green!
The most obvious question to me, if weird to others, was ' your not soul shotgun, are you' ? To which the shocking confirmation came it was!!
Since then I've had plenty of conversations with dj John!
A small world indeed.
Ed