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John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance
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Rich

John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance 6 Months, 1 Week ago  
20 years ago today John Peel died suddenly abroad in Peru at the age of just 65 and at the time was still broadcasting on Radio 1.

I wonder if he would still be on the station even in his mid 80's had he still been with us.

He's laid to rest in a traditional churchyard with a very ancient looking headstone that looks more than a century old.

One of the many people who has made the visit to the village of Great Finborough in Suffolk at St.Andrews Churchyard to pay respects.

youtu.be/JB9CsdUQWXE?si=cqWkHJmIgJNmhpAk
 
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Will

Re:John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance 6 Months, 1 Week ago  
Crikey was it really twenty years ago today. What a lovely respectful film, his grave was not like I would imagine it. It looks like ones in my local church from the late nineteenth century. I think he probably would have still been on Radio 1 health permitting even now, wasn't Annie Nightingale still there until she was 83 and that was only last year.
 
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David Harwood

Re:John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance 6 Months ago  
He was on a working holiday in Peru at the time, probably still checking out some obscure South American sounding music to bring back home and play to a wider audience.

I was always surprised Peely took so well to presenting TOTP with such enthusiasm, I would have never placed him on that show. He was also a big fan of Eurovision too. Not many people probably know that.

I found the video so respectful and quite moving, what a lovely location.
 
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Chris

Re:John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance 6 Months ago  
I never listened to John Peel in the evenings and looking back I regret never even thinking about doing so even in his latter years. I believe he broke some big artists in the 1970's and 1980's so that would have been great to hear them before they were famous.

Wasn't he in Dallas on the day of the JFK assassination.
 
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robbiex

Re:John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance 6 Months ago  
He gave some great groups their first break like The Smiths, the Undertones, and Altered Images, however most of his shows were full of unlistenable obscure rubbish. Towards the end of his life he was increasingly marginalised by the BBC, with his programme getting later and later. I suppose on any other channel he would have been axed much earlier.
 
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Re:John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance 6 Months ago  
I loved Peely as a person but his shows were unlistenable except once in a blue moon he'd play something mass appeal that nobody else would - that was how I picked up The Cuban Boys.
 
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Green Man

Re:John Peel - 20th Anniversary Remembrance 6 Months ago  
David Harwood wrote:
He was on a working holiday in Peru at the time, probably still checking out some obscure South American sounding music to bring back home and play to a wider audience.

I was always surprised Peely took so well to presenting TOTP with such enthusiasm, I would have never placed him on that show. He was also a big fan of Eurovision too. Not many people probably know that.

I found the video so respectful and quite moving, what a lovely location.



A regular in my saw him him in record shops around a lot, Peel was not very approachable; I was told. John Peel would grab a basket and a stack full of thrash metal, doom metal and grind-core because of the gruesome artwork and expletive song titles. John Peel mentioned he liked the band Boulder, Someone has to.


 
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