Pioneering dance music DJ Stu Allan dies aged 60

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Allan, who championed the burgeoning genres in the 1980s and 90s, had received treatment for cancer.< /p>

His manager said then that they were "so sad...we are relieved that he is finally at peace after his illness".

Paying tribute, other DJs said Allan was a "beautiful egoless music lover" and a "shining light of the rave scene he helped build" .

Allan grew up on Anglesey and was initially in a band, but moved to Manchester after being fired from his job on the island.

He started DJing in 1982, after being inspired by a piece of The Adventu by hip-hop DJ Grandmaster Flash res from Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel on the John Pe's BBC Radio 1 broadcast el the previous year.

In 1984 his mixes and remixes were featured on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio, where he later received his own Sunday night show, before continuing with slots on Key 103.

He became known as a pioneer of rave and house music, giving his first pieces radio to artists like A Guy Called Gerald, 808 State and Shut Up and Dance.

He was also a regular guest DJ at Manchester's famous Hacienda and in other nightclubs in the UK and Ibiza, and was part of the 90s music group Clock, which achieved 13 UK Top 40 singles.

In 2021, he told rave music podcast Roar that he had "always enjoyed good, quality dance music"...