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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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 Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:48 pm Post subject: Veteran British broadcaster John Peel dies |
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From the Scotsman.com newspaper website today (26 October 2004):
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DJ John Peel dead
Veteran broadcaster John Peel has died of a heart attack in Peru.
John was on a working holiday in the country visiting the Inca city of Cuzco with his wife, Sheila.
He discovered dozens of major bands over his forty-year career and at the age of 65 still had his finger on the country's musical pulse.
Andy Parfitt, controller of BBC Radio 1, said, "John's influence has towered over the development of popular music for nearly four decades and his contribution to modern music and music culture is immeasurable. He will be hugely missed." |
I echo that sentiment completely. I always used to tune into his BBC Radio 4 programme, "Home Truths", when I was back in Blighty, and listened to it on the net here in China. I loved his wry sense of humour and way of telling things like it really was. He was more than just a presenter of popular music - he was truly part of British life in the way he presented the lives of ordinary people, some in extraordinary circumstances. As Mr. Parfitt said, he will be hugely missed. |
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stillnosheep
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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Location: eslcafe
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Hugely.
I first saw half man half biscuit (at the Tropic in Bristol back in 85 or 86 - before they played Glastonbusy anyway) because John Peel declared that they were the only band in England that he would travel half way acroos England to see... and in the dirty sweaty bunker underneath the tropic, sitting quietly by the bar, sippin' ale and listening away was the man himself.
John Peel is dead. England is lessened. Music mourns. |
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Sadken
Joined: 11 Aug 2004
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| I actually feel as if a mate of mine has died. This man was a British institution; an eccentric possibly and outsider inside definitely. I think everyone should go off, listen to "Teenage Kicks" and have a think and a drink in his honour. I could go on forever about him; he was just so different to all of the current crop of "celebrities" our country is obsessing over. A one-off, worth a million of any of the Heat Magazine (Moyles, Cox et al I am looking at you) shitbags who will now line up to take his place. |
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