John Peel RIP

The last time i met him he showed me around maida vale and where the radiophonic workshop used to be. And told me that he didn't know Delia Derbyshire but he did know Delia Smith. This will be an everlasting memory of a celebrity who actually contributed something to my life.

May you have teenage kicks all through the night John.

peel guided me musically during my impressionable youth more than anyone else...

RIP

RIP.

Like most Brits, Peel entirely shaped how I thought about music. Yes, we fell out slightly when he became techno-obsessed, but that's to be expected.

I'd been compiling a Festive Fifty archive on slsk, I feel compelled to put it on when I get home.

"After announcing Peel's death on Radio 1, the station played his favourite song, Teenage Kicks, by the Undertones."

RIP Peelie.

A great loss as a man, a great loss to music.

Peel did deserve to go gently into old age. He contributed uncalculably to British culture. Many famous people are indebted to Peel. He was very important. But he never let that importance go to his head. He was always that affable endearing shambolic cove with whom you would love to share a pint or two. The world is a poorer place for his passing.

Sincerest condolences to Sheila and the family. But also a hearty thank-you. John was unique.

I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

I'm gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over cos I'm all alone
I need excitement, oh I need it bad
And it's the best, I've ever had

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

xxx

Blasting this repeatedly right now is so cathartic.

RIP Peelie. I'll always remember the Festive 50s, the endless championing of bands I'd never of -- or heard of again -- and, most of all, the deep, abiding love of music.

As said on ILE, devastating, shocking, unfair; it is all casting a jagged black shadow of incomprehensibility and unassimilability across the bright London afternoon.

What would have been the last song he spun over the air?

This is still available on the radio player till about 11 tonight - please listen to it again.

also Lou Macari!

R.I.P. john...

On the day after Chris Moyles was declared the "Saviour of Radio 1" by Mark Thompson is the day that Radio 1 lost its one true asset.

It's all too sad.

Feeling stung, what a shame.

I was lucky enough to be involved in a Peel session a few years ago.

Well, once I found out, I just *had* to work a Fall reference into one of the tracks, just to say a sly hello to JP. I looped and slowed down MES singing LEAVE THE CAPITAL! and at the fade out of one of our songs I played it through my gutar from a scrappy dictaphone speaker.

Of course, Peel noticed! I was thrilled when he played Leave The Capital the night before our broadcast. After the session track played out, the next night, he made a comment along the lines of 'Ah, the great man ranting away' over the MES loop/fade.

Like I say, I was so pleased.

Moyles, you'd better be on your best fucking behaviour about this tomorrow morning, oughtn't you?

well i know it's not anyone would want to hear or probably agree with but there's a huge poster by Old Street roundabout featuring Zane Lowe and the legend 'In New Music We Trust' - make of that what you will

Same slsk username as here, aldo_cowpat

but this is so so so different.

my teenage spiritual awakenings/traumas were all soundtracked by John Peel shows.

literally stunned by the news.

m.e

yes, it's a bit like criticising Michael Buerk for wearing a purple tie when the Queen Mother died. They've had to do a tribute on the turn of a dime so you can hardly blame DJ Spoony for it.

RIPJP

what a legacy to leave behind though...

What's my prize?

RIP

I guess we'll probably never see a DJ have this kind of influence ever again huh?

John Peel's contribution to rock and roll is inestimable, may he rest in peace.

That is fantastic! A prize beyond my wildest dreams: especially since I already happen to have a picture of DLT that's been signed by all the members of Showaddywaddy - so I now have a complete set which I'm sure would really impress all friends, if only I had any!

try dandelion radio too. (myspace.com/dandelionradio)

As a rule, if any band have this:

http://cyberai.com/peeltribute.jpg

Pass along this small tribute, copy this code.

on their Myspace, then they always certainly never listened to a Peel show in their life because the music was a "bit weird".

http://www.jonhorne.co.uk/jptapes/jptapes.html

Happy 70th.

Thread still makes me ;_;

sad stuff indeed.

Six years ago. There's still an obvious void left behind.

I've been reading "John Peel: A Life in Music." The haphazardness of his early years makes it clear that the music world was very lucky to have John Peel end up doing what he did for so long. I can't imagine the stars ever aligning again to let a dj tenaciously investigate and promote and record new music, yet have the continuity of decades and the platform of a national radio broadcast.

Wow. Six years. Still missing Peel big time.

Of course there are enough shows ripped by kind people on the internet that I could probably still spend the next decade or so listening to him as much as I did in my teenage years (still sometimes find bits of paper I scrawled misheard song titles on to look up on Ceefax the next morning), but for some reason I've done very little of that. Partly not knowing where to start, partly the sadness of a show so forward-looking trapped in amber.

I listen to his shows all the time. God bless the internet.

where are some good places to get old Peel shows?

I found a bunch of Festive Fifty episodes on P1rate B4y.

there's an entire internet group dedicated to preserving and archiving those sessions... a friend of mine is in it and tyler I can try to hook you up if you fail to find other sources.

I have a bunch of "Peel out in the States" CDs, and a couple of C90s where I hadn't edited out JPeel from the songs (I did this once, tape lost anyway)

Er...this is impressive. 254 shows from '67 - '04:

http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/john-peel-show/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPzyN8Qq5XA