Graham Simpson, Australian radio announcer/writer/manager, has died at the age of 69. For seven years he was co-host on the 3XY Morning Show as the character  Lester Parsons.

His LinkedIn profile lists pretty much most of his achievements.

• Editor, The National Tattler for Maxwell Newton Publications
• Co-host of 3XY morning radio show for seven years
• News reader, 3XY
• Co-host of 3XY programs Off the Record, The Infomaniacs.
• Editor, The Video Age
• Aust correspondent for the Hong Kong Standard, and World Entertainment News Network
• Weekly columnist for The Herald-Sun and feature writer Sunday Herald Sun ‘Sunday’
• Features writer The Age
• Scriptwriter/interviewer with radio network MCM Entertainment for 19 years, interviewing local and international celebrities visiting Australia, and writing weekly scripts for many of the company’s award-winning syndicated radio programs, including My Generation, Take 40 Australia, Planet Rock, The Hot Hits, Australian Rock ‘n Roll: The Early Years, etc.
• Writer, national television program, Five Decades of Laughs and Legends for the Seven Network to mark their 40th anniversary
• Sketch writer for the Seven Network’s Fast Forward series
• Corporate speech writer, Mark Mitchell’s character ‘Con the Fruiterer’
• Author of best-selling books, The Judith Durham Story – Colours of My Life and The Seekers – The 50 Year Recorded History of Australia’s First Supergroup (the latter co-authored with Christopher Patrick)
• Put together, executive produced, and wrote sleeve notes for 27 CD and 8 DVD releases
• Worked with staff at the National Film and Sound Archives in collating and cataloguing their Judith Durham and Seekers audio/visual collections
• Worked with curators at the Performing Artist Museum cataloguing Judith Durham Collection and subsequent exhibitions
• Spent several years as personal manager to Australian singing group The Seekers, as well as being director of their lead singer Judith Durham’s music company, Musicoast Pty. Ltd.
• Negotiated and managed international and national tours by The Seekers, one international and two national tours by Judith Durham
• Script consultant for the stage production Georgy Girl – The Seekers Musical.