After two hours, the radio legend signed off by saying: "I'll be back for more love songs next Sunday. Ta-ra then."

At one point, Pullen is heard saying "I miss your little face", before ending the call with "ta-ra, princess", to which Miss Shmylo responds: "Thanks, bye."

After playing his last song, Friends by Bette Midler, he signed off with: "So you look after yourselves, stay safe and well. Ta-ra everyone."

"When we landed on the ground in Brize Norton they said ta-ra to me... I still had bullets in my magazines, I didn't have a pre-release course, I didn't have nothing, they didn't look after me at all."

When Ferguson retired, the fan with the spare bedsheet and pot of paint produced another banner: “Twenty-three years of silver and we’re still top, ta-ra Fergie.”