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John Peel

John Peel

  1. John Peel's Shed, Perth Theatre
    Herald Scotland logo Herald Scotland 2 days ago

    That audience numbered close to 400 souls and they had chosen the performance from the brochure of the Perth Festival of the Arts. It speaks volumes for both the enquiring nature of the festival's audience and the continued potency of John Peel's name...

  2. Interview with Peter Hook by Jade Wright
    Flintshire Chronicle logo Flintshire Chronicle 3 days ago

    I have happy memories of playing The Swinging Apple and Eric’s early on, getting lost on the way home – we always ended up in Birkenhead tunnel looking for the A580 and we always got great crowds. “Roger Eagle was an early hero for me, very much in the...

  3. The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the ‘rock ’n’ roll’ era. You may dispute this, but I’m right and you’re wrong!
    – John Peel SOURCE: Liverpool Daily Post 2 months ago
  4. John Peel's Records: 'D' Now Online
    The Quietus 4 days ago
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    'D' is now online - click here to view - where better known names like Daddy Freddy, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince and Dick Dale (doinnng) and about 20 records by The Damned rub up against lesser knowns like Daddy Longlegs and Daman. Oh, and some...

  5. 25 Years On: The Young Gods' Debut Revisited
    The Quietus 4 days ago
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    The highly influential C86 cassette put out by the NME just months earlier set the indie tone – groups like The Wedding Present, Bogshed and pre-rave Primal Scream, dubbed the “shambling bands” by John Peel, were deliberately colourless, unambitious...

  6. Stowmarket: Peel Centre forced to cancel gigs
    Evening Star 6 days ago

    The centre, based in the Corn Exchange, Church Walk, Stowmarket, dates back to the 19th Century and is due to close at the end of June to begin the final phase of its restoration. Sheila Ravenscroft, John Peel’s widow, said: “The band who were due to...

  7. John Peel’s Record Collection
    SOURCE: The Oxonian Review 3 weeks ago
  8. John Peel's Record Box (1/4)
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 7 months ago
  9. Streamed gig for video festival
    BBC News logo BBC News 1 week ago
    BBC Music Video Festival presentation

    May 2012 Last updated at 11:52 ET The BBC Music Video Festival returns fully in September The BBC Music Video Festival is being unveiled this weekend with a live internet-streamed gig from Norwich. Norfolk band Magoo, who have played seven John Peel...

  10. Music: Retrospective of seminal Welsh language band Datblygu opens in cardiff
    Wales Online logo Wales Online 1 week ago

    Furry Animals and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. Now an exhibition to celebrate the history of Datblygu has opened in Cardiff. Staged in the unorthodox surrounds of the Waffle Coffee Shop in Canton, it celebrates 30 years since the formation of the hugely...

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About John Peel

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John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Full Article

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  1. The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the ‘rock ’n’ roll’ era. You may dispute this, but I’m right and you’re wrong!
    – John Peel SOURCE: Liverpool Daily Post 2 months ago
  2. John Peel’s Record Collection
    SOURCE: The Oxonian Review 3 weeks ago
  3. I wouldn’t trade those years for anything. I was totally committed at the time ... A few years ago I found out that John Peel (one of the most important and influential DJs of all time) had the only record we did in his personal record box of his favorite one hundred singles of all time. I had no idea h...
    SOURCE: Artlog Blog 3 weeks ago
  4. This is just the first step and a fantastic portal to give the career of John Peel the justice it deserves. Whether people listened to his shows or not, their social history has been influence by him because nothing was deemed 'out of the box' and it encouraged people to expand their horizons
    SOURCE: Clash Music 3 weeks ago
  5. We've got a film that's never been broadcast before, which was made around his 50th birthday, called John Peel's Suffolk Comforts. It was never transmitted and it's a real gem. It's got some really personal things in it.
    SOURCE: The Independent 4 weeks ago
  6. When I was a little boy growing up I'd spend a lot of time alone, looking out my back window and listening to John Peel on Radio 1. I learned to pick out bird calls like you'd pick out individual instruments in music.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  7. When DJs really mattered was when you couldn’t find music anywhere. The only way you could find out about artists like the Smiths was to listen to the BBC’ss John Peel sessions. Now there are so many ways to find music.
    SOURCE: Austin360 2 months ago
  8. There was a time when there was very little broadcast media, when John Peel was the only route to a certain type of music. Now, you can find an infinite amount of music on the internet and radio stations around the world. I don't think it's specialist enough to make it necessary.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  9. You need to appeal/ To the people that feel John Peel/ And want to keep it real/ So pretty Beeb, we appeal for a new deal
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
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