John Peel RIP

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― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

??????????????????????????

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

What d'ye mean, I saw him last week, large as life

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim, is this true?

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

nothing on bbc site about it.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont think so, this shit aint funny dude

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

would you people quit it with the fake death announcements??

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

If this is a joke, it's a bad one.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah this isnt funny.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

If this is a joke I may hit you (not allyc)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

JimD is cool tho, I doubt it's just a joke.

PERHAPS HE MURDERED PEELIE

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

You didn't, did you, Jim?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing on Google news.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim get back on the internet!

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

he may never be allowed back

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kill him

― Deadaismus? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it's been embargoed till 2, and Radio 1 are about to go into a news item at 2...

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.blackcatbone.34sp.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18128

― Frederick J., Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT! THE! FUCK?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard from three different places.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, news starting on Radio 4 now. FUCKING HELL! IT'S TRUE.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

top story on the TV right now

RIP

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw the old boy last week!

― Deadaismus? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Whilst on holiday in Peru apparently. Oh shit, this is horrible.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

UPDATE 1-Veteran British broadcaster John Peel dies in Peru

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LIMA, Peru, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Veteran British disc jockey and broadcaster John Peel has died in Peru while on holiday in the ancient Inca city of Cuzco, his employer the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British embassy said on Tuesday.

"He passed away. We don't have any details. We received a phone call at 4 a.m. from his brother to inform us," said Jonathan Clare, an embassy official in Lima.

The BBC in London said Peel was on a working holiday in Cuzco with his wife, Sheila. There was no other comment from the BBC.

Peel, born in 1939, was one of Britain's original pirate radio disc jockeys in the 1960s, broadcasting from ships anchored just outside British waters that won huge followings. Peel was his assumed "pirate" name.

In the late 1970s he championed punk rock to the consternation of many of his radio contemporaries who were still playing rock supergroups - and were convinced the new music fad would never had any real impact.

Peel - an authority on independent music - was honoured as an Order of the British Empire.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

BBC Radio 1 just confirmed this.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Radio One is playing 'Teenage Kicks'. It's pretty sweet.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Well damn.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This has really shaken me up.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG how awful, this is so sad. :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

this is absolutely tragic.

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh christ

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

This is absolutely terrible. RIP JP.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

:-( I am so sad.

RIP.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That's terrible. I'm very sad. It's not often a genuine hero dies.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit. Soon as I heard teenage Kicks my heart sank. RIP

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Sad news indeed,

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

This is very sad.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to drop that then disappear, it wasn't my intention.

Give me a break though. I wouldn't have joked about it. It's incredibly sad news.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Very, very upsetting news. RIP John

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Sad, sad day. Radio will never be the same again.

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't take it in, really. Err - yeah.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

As sad as I was to hear about Greg Shaw last week, this one hits much closer to home.

― mike a, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I'm filling up at my desk.

and sorry Jim

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Radio One has gone all rockist in the last ten minutes.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I am too. This is just so wrong.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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what is wrong with this picture?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1_promo.shtml

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://belleandsebastian.banchory.net/images/photos/320.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Funeral

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone see Hansen and Lawro pay tribute on Focus?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sadly not... you did, I take it; what did they say?

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 5 November 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

just watch the bbc 2 tribute thing again.

who was the ex-everton player who gave him tickets to the FA cup? there was no name flashed up on screen.

Alan Hansen was a surprise. as was Delia.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It was ~~Japanese Giraffe~~ Pat Nevin, Koogs.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Delia, not so much of a surprise. Apparently, John got a copy of Aidan Smith's "Song for Delia" and passed it on, being close neighbours and that.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard somewhere else (but only in the last week) that he was impressed by the way Delia would always get takeaway curry whenever they went for dinner there.

he'd always say bad things about norwich city but i guess this was because of last year's promotion playoffs.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sitting up late writing something for a friend and playing MP3s randomly, and the first song of the Mountain Goats Peel Sessions has just come on.

At the beginning, Peel says: "let's get onto the Mountain Goats. Not literally..." It's the first time I've heard his voice since his death and it took me a few seconds to cotton on. Fuck.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Watched a BBC report on the funeral today. Saw some of the photos. The one of his wife and kids is just so crushing and sad.

Sigh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I had no idea that he started his broadcasting career in Dallas. That struck me as very bizarre.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to think that actually helped him in a lot of ways, a way to get experience outside of his home country and their radio system. So by the time he came home, he was already an experienced DJ, and that probably helped the pirates establish their own credibility all the more, and so forth. It was one of those unplanned but in retrospect necessary backgrounds, really.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

He was sent to America (Texas/Oklahoma) to work for his father's company and started moonlighting as a DJ in Oklahoma City when the Beatles broke. He apparently flagged up his Liverpool origins in a way that made him seem extra-useful to them (translation: he completely blagged it).

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

He more or less claimed to be pals with the Beatles. It was important to him not just as a foot on the ladder, but the US way of doing things, figures like Wolfman Jack, were very important to him, even though he was never that kind of flamboyant presenter.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember driving back from steve gullick's house at like 3am all across london, back home, after finishing the final layout and subbing on the latest Loose Lips... it was two dies after he'd died, i guess, we were both talking about Peel all through the session, and our tribute is subtle but says everything we want to. anyways, i was driving home and playing some random minidisk on the stereo, and the Lightning Bolt Peel session came on, with his intro and outro, John saying it was Lightning Bolt's first session at Maida Vale, but it wouldn't be his last. Then I realised John would miss their next session, in December, and I figured that of all the tragedies involved in his early passing, the fact that he'd be missing all the new music that would come after his death was a minor but poignant one.

― stevie (stevie), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

but also that this minor tragedy is in fact major for all the bands who'll never have Peel to champion them.

― stevie (stevie), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost to Martin) Yeah, that's what I was trying to explain - he didn't exactly say he knew them, but never denied it.

Got a major case of the blubs looking at the photos Ned described. But at the same time, if you look at his kids, they've all got the same nose (and one of his sons is the spit of him) which turned the howls into laughter-type ones. That's the spirit, I thought. RIP.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Somewhere in my busy day to day life I missed almost this entire thread! It doesn't seem possible. I am in shock. Skidmore, it's good to see you hanging around here since you said you gave it up or whatever. Some of your posts here really mean a lot to me, I appreciate it.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, but all I am giving up is being a moderator - I don't plan to leave ILX.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

gambo pointed out during his tribute that john had taken pictures from the bonnet of jfk's car in dallas on THAT day in 1963 (jfk invited him aboard to take pictures after they got snarled in traffic, he'd heard the accent). the pictures have recently resurfaced and will be published shortly.

he was also there when jack ruby shot lee harvey.

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 13 November 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

But at the same time, if you look at his kids, they've all got the same nose (and one of his sons is the spit of him) which turned the howls into laughter-type ones.

I was noticing that as well -- they couldn't be any more of their father's kids.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

tarted moonlighting as a DJ in Oklahoma City when the Beatles broke. He apparently flagged up his Liverpool origins in a way that made him seem extra-useful to them (translation: he completely blagged it).

He started in Dallas first at a station where he co-hosted with the man who became the voice of Big Tex (!) when the Beatles broke and became a local celebrity. He fled to OKC after a scandal involving an underage girl.

And to his credit it was kind of assumed he knew the Beatles b/c he was from Liverpool so he just played along.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 November 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Tex:
http://www.kcbi.org/images/State%20Fair%2003%20Big%20Tex%20Vertical%20web.jpg

Peel came out on top I think.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 November 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for posting all the quotes and pictures, Ned. The Peter Murphy one seems to say it especially well.

― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 14 November 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

His last World Service programme is available here until Friday, I think.

― Venga, Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/johnpeel/story/0,15271,1358604,00.html

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

http://peelplayer.com/

Every track from every festive 50

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)

He liked Dreadzone a lot more than I remember

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:05 (fourteen years ago)

People voting for the Festive 50s liked Dreadzone, but they were always a bit different from what he actually played on his shows anyway.

(By "always" I mean since the, erm, mid-90s)

― Dust, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:18 (fourteen years ago)

There was a lot of people voting for stuff that would please him, towards the end.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:21 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfwf6JuwYDw&feature=player_embedded

― piscesx, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:29 (fourteen years ago)

A very very young Mark Radcliffe. Also this was so long ago that the bass player's haircut is fashionable again.

― cheque out my debit to building society (snoball), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 13:28 (fourteen years ago)

interesting to hear Peel talk of being in a fallow period for music. very 1985.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 13:29 (fourteen years ago)

Remember watching that when it went out and discussions about it at school the next day. 26 YEARS!!!

― Venga, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

this is cool

From FACTmag:

Peel’s collection is being made available to the general public, in the form of an “interactive online museum” [via NME].

The collection is understood to comprise around 25,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and “many thousands” of CDs. It’s going to be represented online as part of The Space, a new “experimental digital service” managed and largely funded by the Arts Council, with support from the BBC.

Tom Barker, Director of the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, comments: “It is the first step in creating an interactive online museum with access to the entire collection, one of the most important archives in modern music history.”

Frank Prendergast of Eye Film And Television adds: “The idea is to digitally recreate John’s home studio and record collection, which users will be able to interact with and contribute to, while viewing Peel’s personal notes, archive performances and new filmed interviews with musicians.”

“We’re very happy that we’ve finally found a way to make John’s amazing collection available to his fans, as he would have wanted,” says Peel’s widow, Sheila Ravenscroft. This project is only the beginning of something very exciting.”

Precisely how this “interactive online museum” will work, and what users will actually be able to do with it, are ambiguous at present. What is known is that The Space will be live over the period May-October 2012, across various platforms – including PCs, smartphones and digital freeview TV. The project is receiving up to £3.5m of funding from Arts Council England.

― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

RIP, very tragic news

― lorem ipsum dolor de estómago (am0n), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:33 (fourteen years ago)

maybe this is a better place...

What should become of John Peel's record collection now?

― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.mixcloud.com/peel600/mix/

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 October 2014 13:46 (eleven years ago)

The last decade seems to have played at the wrong speed (too fast).
RIP

― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 25 October 2014 13:50 (eleven years ago)

Impossible to find a single Peel show to stream nowadays.

― iglesias, Saturday, 25 October 2014 14:13 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pIVmk6kXz4

― mike t-diva, Saturday, 25 October 2014 14:38 (eleven years ago)

"Impossible to find a single Peel show to stream nowadays."

― iglesias, zaterdag 25 oktober 2014

http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/

― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Sunday, 26 October 2014 16:52 (eleven years ago)

^ requires password

― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 26 October 2014 17:05 (eleven years ago)

Username: peel
Password: group

― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Sunday, 26 October 2014 17:22 (eleven years ago)

wow, that is a real treasure trove, thanks for posting

― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 26 October 2014 18:24 (eleven years ago)

bump

― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 20:58 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

12 years.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 17:11 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

Anyone want to pass the hat?

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/john-peel-auction-beatles-bowie-freddie-mercury-1235290361/

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 June 2022 16:57 (four years ago)

I used to respect John Peel, but check out his track timings here:
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/27992/lot/124/joy-division-an-advance-copy-of-the-album-unknown-pleasures-from-manager-rob-gretton-to-john-peel-1979/

After comparing them with the track timings at discogs.com I realise that he was wildly inaccurate and inconsistent. A couple of the timings are correct but the rest are all over the place. And yet the BBC continued to give him work! NB I'm not being serious and of course he was doing it manually while listening to a record that has fade-outs.

The "selection of books from John Peel's library" feel a bit weak. They're just books. They don't appear to be signed and some of them are still in print. Perhaps there are margin notes. They might be useful if you're trying to reverse-engineer his mind but that wouldn't be enough.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 11 June 2022 19:36 (four years ago)

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