Favourite John Peel quotes

Go to BBC & vote the undertones for the festive 50.

My abiding memory of JP is not the time I actualy met him but Reading 1977 when having played a track at the wrong speed he said "ah well it's your last chance to annoy the neighbours & we all chanted "John Peel's a C**t"

As my Dad is now in Sumatra I'll tell his story - my half brother was in school with JP's son & when my dad met Mr. Ravenscroft (who he recognised) he said what do you do for a living & JP replied "I'm John Peel" my Dad said "yes but what do you do?" wound JP up but he later said it reminded him where he stood.
I met JP once in Batisford & he was so kind it didn't feel like hero worship.

why's he wearing two watches in that one picture? i'm sure i remember him explaining it before but can't quite recall the reason.

"No three things go quite as well together as a Trio" 8)

...and his mum used to teach me at primary school!

"You might thing those are bronzed adonises from California, but
instead they're acne-scarred teenagers from Sheffield."

"it starts off quietly, throbbing, as you may be doing yourselves...
i certainly hope so"

classic! i've got some more good'uns on the same disk...

there's one where he's talking about seeing a band in europe (spain i think)it goes along the lines of...

"and you can see them in spain on the 12th, if you can afford it. and which of us in Blair's Britain cannot!!!"

the way he sed it is ace! i really miss him still...
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amazing! :) And I never got tired or failed to laugh at hearing " Sorry, seemed to have played that at the wrong speed". I miss John, i always thought of him as my grandad :)

RIP Grandad!
you're greatly missed

Also many cases where he would read out some disgruntled letter or email, and finish with "There's only one 's' in disgraceful, by the way" or something akin to that.

"They sound a bit like...a sortof folk band, you'd imagine a folk band would be called Crispy Ambulance because they're always called things like '2,000 Megaton Turnip' and things like that."

"Bob Harris is preparing himself for later frenzied acitivity
on Radio One FM after the 10:30 news
and I'm sure he's probably listening to the show
at this VERY MOMENNT."

'That was Hank Williams though, with 'when god comes and gathers his jewels' and I suspect that in popular newspaper parlance that probably these days means testicles but I don't think thats what hank williams had in mind when he wrote the song'

Priceless

I think the thing about John as a presenter was that he wasn't 'a radio presenter'. He was still himself on the radio, not some kind of watered down, anodyne version.
Death to profesionalism.

Best one I remember was, during a Festive 50 in the early 90s, John announced that our local transmitter was going to be out of action for a few minutes. The signal duly went dead and crackled to life again halfway through the next record. After it had finished, John remarked "The transmitter should be back on again so, if you still can't hear us, there's something wrong with your radio!!"

When they opened the show with it I sobbed uncontrollably. I haven't been the same since.

I honestly still think about him every day.

Thread to contain the John Peel quotes from the Observer so that we can still look at it when they take the article away in 2027

and there was the John Walters quote "If Peel ever reaches puberty, the show's in trouble"

Dear All

I would be grateful if you would do two things for me to mark one John Peel’s passing:

1)As in the spirit of the original Festive Fifty, please send me your top three tracks (singles or LP tracks) in order 1 2 3. Please ensure you send both name of track as well as artist/group.

2)Send this email to a bunch of people, asking them to send their top 3 to me at festivefifty@hotmail.co.uk by midnight 17th December.

I will collate the answers and put out a definitive Festive Fifty at www.festivefifty.net on 24th December this year.

I know this sounds a little…….but my love of music was fuelled by Peelie and having read the Mick Wall book, it brought it home how much he gave us and I would like to give a little back myself. If you think this is bollocks, then please do not reply but do me a favour, send it on as there are plenty of people who will not feel that way.

Cheers

I'd told him my name was "Steven with a v", so, of course, that is what he'd written

I'd told him my name was "Steven with a v", so, of course, that is what he'd written!

Well, if that doesn't get to number 1, I'm going to shave off DLT's head

I still have this on tape - one of my most cherished recorded moments. To be precise, it was Kylie's "Put Your Hand On Your Heart" which was pummelled out of the way by a track by Japanese thrash band SOB.

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