John Peel RIP

C r a s s ! · Post by **C r a s s !** » 27 Oct 2004, 05:27

In 1977 I discovered the John Peel Show on Radio One.
John introduced me to all the bands and songs that shaped my musical tastes forever: The Cure, The Skids, The Undertones, Public Image, Nigger Kojak, Clint Eastwood, Yellowman, The Ramones - I heard them all first on John's Show.

And of course, The Stranglers.

The Peel Sessions... Excerpts from the yet to be released Black + White album... Walk On By... I was in heaven. The feeling of hearing all this beautiful music will stay with me forever.

Who can imagine anyone championing any new and different music on the radio these days? Who's going to do that now? Moyles? Cox? I find these fools insulting.

As the Ramones one sang: They don't come close.

See you John.
crass :D

mccardigan · Post by **mccardigan** » 27 Oct 2004, 11:21

Met him once in Leeds at a Wedding Present gig. I shook his hand and thanked him for introducing me to the Field Mice (of all the bands...) He mentioned this on his show the next night.

If there's a God I hope he'll have Peelie as his club DJ, might make Him a calmer man.

RIP

graingerman2 · Post by **graingerman2** » 27 Oct 2004, 11:25

nickinblack wrote:I.If there was a chart that ever mattered,it was John Peel's Xmas Festive 50.Would be fantastic to see a run down of the charts for those years.

http://www.rocklist.net/festive50.htm

Post by **nickinblack** » 27 Oct 2004, 11:36

graingerman2 wrote:
nickinblack wrote:I.If there was a chart that ever mattered,it was John Peel's Xmas Festive 50.Would be fantastic to see a run down of the charts for those years.

http://www.rocklist.net/festive50.htm

Thank you for that graingerman2.

whatonearthamidoing · Post by **whatonearthamidoing** » 27 Oct 2004, 17:00

Shame he's gone and left us... but I bet he packed a hell of a lot into his 65 years, his autobiog will probabley be well worth reading. Whatever he said he always sounded sincere, very listenable voice. He was the only one worth watching on the Glasto thing the BBC passed off as coverage.

Dagenham Dave · Post by **Dagenham Dave** » 29 Oct 2004, 11:05

Is is Glastonbury that one of the stages will now be named after him ? Seems a fitting tribute considering the impact he had on up and comung bands .

Post by **theraven1979** » 29 Oct 2004, 11:09

mccardigan wrote:Met him once in Leeds at a Wedding Present gig. I shook his hand and thanked him for introducing me to the Field Mice (of all the bands...) He mentioned this on his show the next night.

If there's a God I hope he'll have Peelie as his club DJ, might make Him a calmer man.

RIP

That the gig on their Punk vid? Think it was the Colleseum?

Jim

C r a s s ! · Post by **C r a s s !** » 29 Oct 2004, 19:57

John Peel was unfortunately quoted (current finger-on-the-pulse-with-the-news Q Magazine Issue 221) in a round-up of Radio Oneâ€™s present day line-up of (ahem) DJs, as saying:

â€œThey say Iâ€™m a legend or an institution,â€