George was born in Johannesburg in about 1941 and started his broadcasting career as a technical assistant at Springbok Radio. He moved over LM Radio in Mocambique in the early 1960s where he became an announcer. He was the presenter of "Special Occasion" with Evie Martin and George Wayne's Sunday Afternoon Show. He left Lourenco Marques in 1964 and moved to Australia where he first worked for a rural radio station in Sale, Victoria, then 2WG in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and eventually the rock station 2SM in Sydney. In later years he joined the non-commercial Australian Broadcasting Commission's youth station 2JJ (Later Triple J) in Sydney where he was regarded as an expert in new popular music. He died in Sydney in the early 1990s. , City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... Springbok Radio was the first commercial radio station in South Africa. ... LM Radio (Lourenco Marques Radio) otherwise known as LM Radio was often referred to as the Radio Luxembourg of South Africa. ... Lourenço Marques was a 16th century Portuguese trader. ... Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...
As Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, GeorgeWayne is arguably one of pop culture and celebrity journalism's most unique voices.
Born and raised in Jamaica, Wayne attended the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia and moved to New York in 1984, where he soon established himself as a self-invented chronicler of the glitterati.
GeorgeWayne is preparing The Uncensored Vanities, a collection of his celebrity interviews over the past six years, in conjunction with Penguin/Putnam Studio Books and Vanity Fair.
Wayne died Monday at Munster Community Hospital in Munster, Ind. He was 96.
Wayne and the former Lorraine Zimmer Woodward were married in 1955.
He is survived by five sons, Jack and Conrad Wayne, and Bill, John and George Woodward; a daughter, Maribeth Woodward; a brother, Ted; eight grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
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