Spencer Leigh (born 1 February 1945)[1] is a BBC Radio presenter and author, with particular expertise in the development of pop and rock music and culture in Britain.

[2] The entire collection of 2,027 programmes has been given to Liverpool's Central Library, and there is an on-going project to archive them.

[3] He writes obituaries of musicians for The Guardian, The Independent,[2] and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; he has also written extensively for Record Collector, Country Music People and Now Dig This.

He has written a series of musical biographies for McNidder & Grace: Frank Sinatra (updated with 50 pages of lists in 2022), Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Simon & Garfunkel.

[5] It tells the story of Merseybeat through the Liverpool artists who came before the Beatles, and details numerous private recordings made by local bands prior to October 1962.