text: Recognition Freeman's style has been parodied, and he was the model for comedian Harry Enfield's character Dave Nice, although he contributed to the satire himself in good grace by appearing on Enfield's show. (Enfield praised Freeman in Simon Garfield's book on Radio 1, The Nation's Favourite, by categorising him along with John Peel as "DJs who loved music" as opposed to "DJs who loved the sound of their own voices, like Dave Lee Travis").
  For all Freeman's supposed clichés and archetypes in his broadcasting style, he has been regarded as original by fellow broadcasters. When he appeared on John Peel's This Is Your Life, Peel said: "Fluff is the greatest out-and-out disc jockey of them all".
  After Freeman's death Robin Gibb wrote a tribute, "Alan Freeman Days". Recorded in August 2007, the song was included on Gibb's first posthumous album 50 St. Catherine's Drive in 2014.
  Black Sabbath dedicated the instrumental track "Fluff" on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (composed by Tony Iommi) to Freeman, since he was one of the few radio personalities in Great Britain to play the group's music on-air.
  In an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Great Lives broadcast in January 2024, Freeman was the choice of Simon Mayo.