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Article: Why Steve's top of pops in Nepal.
- Article from:
- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1999
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Byline: Jonathan Walker
BIRMINGHAM disc jockey Steve Cabb is a megastar - in Nepal.
He introduced wacky humour and rave music to a country that had never known anything like it.
And his outspoken opinions have made him the country's first "shock-jock".
Nepal, in the Himalayas, is a third-world country and 90 per cent of the population live in the mountains.
Until 45 years ago it was totally closed to foreigners. And up to 1995, when Steve started broadcasting, there was only one radio station - which was run by the government and ...