Richard Blade

Richard Blade (Richard Sheppard) is a popular Los Angeles radio, television, and film personality from Torquay, England. He is best known for his radio programs that feature New Wave and Popular music from the 1980s. He has stated that Depeche Mode is his favourite band. --- Blade worked as a DJ "The Young Dick Sheppard" in the United Kingdom and Europe before moving to Los Angeles and starting work as a DJ there in 1982. He took a new name from the Sci-Fi film, Blade Runner. Within a few months of working in Los Angeles, Blade had become the #1 Arbitron-rated radio personality on the West Coast, and in 1982, he began to host a weekly television program on KCAL-TVcalled "MV3," which later became "Video One." In 1984 Richard created, produced and hosted "VideoBeat" for KTLA. The weekly series ran for two years. Blade also worked as an actor in the 80s, appearing in Square Pegs, Hunter, Divorce Court, as contestant Dick Sheppard from England on the television game show Card Sharks among other shows. Blade appeared in the 1985 film Girls Just Want to Have Fun starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt.