Michael Aldred (6 July 1945 – 15 April 1995) was a British record producer, music journalist, and television presenter.

[3] In October 1963, Aldred auditioned for the role of 'teenage adviser' in a pop music series for Rediffusion entitled Ready Steady Go, which had been running since August and presented by Keith Fordyce.

It was about to be broadcast across the ITV network, and producer Elkan Allan was keen to differentiate its style from similar BBC productions which had been fronted by presenters visibly older than the target audience.

[4] At the time of his debut, Aldred was aged 18 years and 5 months, by some margin the youngest presenter of any programme on British television.

[6] Despite the article's sentiments, Aldred was gay – and according to a number of writers, had brief affairs with Dave Davies[7] of the Kinks and Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of the Rolling Stones, whom he had met through Brian Jones.

[11] In the mid-1970s, Aldred moved to the United States where he continued in music production and writing, acting as reviewer for magazines such as Goldmine and Audio.