OT: John Peel

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:30:32 +0100, Andy Dingley <[email hidden]>

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Dave Larrington said:

Peelie is on record as saying he wants to be buried
next to HMHB, which could prove trciky, what with none of them being
dead...

Another use for the equilateral chainsaw

Half Man, Half...er...Man.

Colin

Pete Biggs said:

He was such a genuine
bloke (and radio being such an intimate medium) that he felt like a
personal friend to his listeners.

The fact that he had been known to play a record and then say "I can't
think why I liked that first time round" probably endeared him to a
lot of people, as did the complete absence of the average DJ's forced
cheeriness.

Guy
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:48:35 +0100 someone who may be "Pete Biggs"
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"Let's hope he introduces the oldies upstairs to some proper tunes."

I liked the cartoon in "The Guardian" today. One angel is saying to
another, "The new bloke says harps are out."

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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:48:35 +0100 someone who may be "Pete Biggs"
<[email hidden]> wrote this:-

Quoted message said:

"Let's hope he introduces the oldies upstairs to some proper tunes."

I liked the cartoon in "The Guardian" today. One angel is saying to
another, "The new bloke says harps are out."

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prevents me by using the RIP Act 2000.

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:27:25 GMT someone who may be Call me Bob
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The death of John Peel on the other hand is a genuinely significant
and deeply saddening event. The man made an immeasurable contribution
to (real) music broadcasting over a span of decades. Whether or not
some people understand, our nation has lost someone truly special.

Agreed. I started to listen to him about 30 years ago and he
introduced me to many forms of music. By the 1990s I would only tune
in occasionally, to see what he was up to. He then gained an
audience on Radio 4 and it is a mark of the man that he could to two
programmes that were so different.

As well as the records played at the wrong speed (he sometimes
changed the speed in the middle of the record) I remember him
playing the wrong track at times. Great radio, so much better than
the mush that much music radio is.

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o Home Truths in recent years.

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Very sad. I am taken back to 1978 and listening to JP late at night on
a small radio in the bedroom I shared with my brother. He'd play
records by bands like Magazine, The Slits, The Ruts, The Diagram
Brothers, Scritti Politti and loads of others not heard of before or
since. Pocket money allowing, we'd then try to buy some of these
records only to find no shop had ever heard of them. Not in Hereford.

Buzz Music...(its the widemarsh St carpark now) They had them. Spent
every other saturday morning in there 1978-80 and then suffered at
the footy.

Only to move to Edinburgh and end up watching football with the great
man at Meadowbank.

Richard Webb

Colin Blackburn said:

I still have a letter from him in response to me sending him some photos
of a grain silo in Trafford---he claimed an album cover photo (Dead Can
Dance) was probably some East European building when it was just down the
road from me at the time.

Trafford _is_ Eastern Europe.
Grey, concrete, and somewhere East of Warrington.

(a Scouser writes)

JohnB said:

I saw one of Ian Drury's last 'private' gigs when he played at a works
do in London - brilliant and a real person - met him going to the gents
too during the interval.
We had one of his tracks read as a poem at our wedding.

#"I come awake
with the gift for womankind
You're still asleep
but the gift don't seem to mind" ?

Tim