A TOP DJ who has played for the likes of Mick Jagger and Robert De Niro will be hitting the decks in Worcester tomorrow.

DJ Norman Jay, who has an MBE, will be playing at Bamboo Nightclub, Tybridge Street, Worcester from midnight to 3am.

Norman, who has been called the DJ's DJ, was rewarded for his achievements and dedication to music, after being named in the Queen's birthday honours list 2002 with an MBE for ''services to DJ'ing and music''.

He now sits with only a select few DJs who have been given an award of this magnitude.

He is the stars' favourite celebrity DJ, playing for Mick Jagger at his 5Oth birthday party, Robert De Niro, Michael Caine, George Michael, Will Smith, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Jamiroquai (who affectionately calls him the 'Godfather'), Paul Weller (who has been quoted as saying that Jay is his favourite DJ), actor Lenny Henry (who reputedly modelled his pirate radio DJ TV character on Jay), Vivienne Westwood, and Gaultier, to name a few.

Jay, born in Notting Hill, London, nurtured latent DJing ambitions from the tender age of eight.

By then, encouraged by a very musical oriented family he had bought his first record and played at his first gig - a 10th birthday party for one his cousins.

By the late 70s, he had become an avid collector of labels like Motown, Atlantic, Stax, Prelude, West End and Salsoul disco.

While visiting the New York side of his family in Brooklyn for the first time, he discovered that one of his uncles was also an accomplished DJ and sound system operator.

Jay stayed for several months frequenting all the clubs that mattered including the legendary Paradise Garage.

Inspired by what he'd discovered and experienced during that Big Apple trip, Jay decided to take his DJing more seriously.

He teamed up with his brother, and his reputation as an underground DJ of some repute was began to grow, often attracting crowds of around a thousand people.

He then teamed up with old pal DJ Gordon Mac to start up their own pirate radio station, called Kiss FM.

Completely untrained in any aspects of broadcasting, he presented his first live show in October 1985, and the rest, is history. Jay was the first ever UK DJ to be invited to play at the Cannes Film Festival.

In recognition of his lifelong DJ achievements and involvement in club culture, Jay is the subject of a full length film, Good Times, which is a semi-autobiographical account of himself.

With the global rise of UK DJ and dance culture, Jay has once again found his niche being extremely popular with a new generation of dance fans worldwide as well as playing at clubs and festivals nationwide.