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Hey...So how many remember John Peel and also enjoyed listening to him on the radio? and also of course when he was at Glastonbury Festival going on walk about to experience the weird and wonderful  RIP John Peel..Glastonbury on BBC2 just is not the same with out you! His son Tom Ravenscroft is also a DJ on BBC radio 6...I enjoy listening to his choice of music too, just like I did his Dads, I'm listening to him right now. Does any one else enjoy tuning in to him? |
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Yes he was and still is a legend  He did make me laugh when he played a way out there tune then when it finished he always said...'well there we have it..not sure where I got that one from'...what a guy, and he introduced us all to The Undertones and their top tune..'Teenage Kicks'..
*John Robert Parker Ravenscroft..Aka..John Peel* |
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"What is the one single track that you heard on John Peel that you will never forget, that you go back to over and over? "
Oh quite a few...but the one that stands out right now is 'teenage Kicks' by The Undertones |
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One of those people who i can remember exactly where and when i heard he'd died 
Without doubt, the most important single person in western music. You never knew what you'd hear next from him- the weird, the wonderful, the WTF? but always interesting...and his voice has a magical calming tone.
Think he'd be a massive fan and and very proud of Ravers, who has taken on the torch from his dad and continued with his own style, but a familiar DNA |
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I actually didn't like much of the music he played but he was a great broadcaster. He lived and is buried in a small village not far from me, a quote from teenage kicks is on his headstone. |
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"What is the one single track that you heard on John Peel that you will never forget, that you go back to over and over?
Oh quite a few...but the one that stands out right now is 'teenage Kicks' by The Undertones "
Yeah his funeral song…
Mine was from the 1991 Festive Fifty..
Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love
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"What is the one single track that you heard on John Peel that you will never forget, that you go back to over and over?
Oh quite a few...but the one that stands out right now is 'teenage Kicks' by The Undertones
Yeah his funeral song…
Mine was from the 1991 Festive Fifty..
Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love
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Got the 2 12" of that. Tune!!! |
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"What is the one single track that you heard on John Peel that you will never forget, that you go back to over and over?
Oh quite a few...but the one that stands out right now is 'teenage Kicks' by The Undertones
Yeah his funeral song…
Mine was from the 1991 Festive Fifty..
Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love
Got the 2 12" of that. Tune!!!"
Yup. To be fair the lot of the ‘91 festive 50 are tunes! |
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As a kid I had to go to bed ridiculously early, 21:00 in my final year at school. I used to have a Robert’s radio with an ear piece, every night at 22:00 I’d switch the radio on and listen to John Peel, till I fell asleep. I heard a huge variety of music, some of which I still listen to now. He was a massive part of my childhood. |
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"What is the one single track that you heard on John Peel that you will never forget, that you go back to over and over?
Oh quite a few...but the one that stands out right now is 'teenage Kicks' by The Undertones "
I'm pretty sure he was the only DJ to play a song twice back to back, and that song was Teenage Kicks.
Brilliant DJ. |
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Really he was the only reason I listened to the radio... haven't bothered with much it since..still got loads of cassette tapes I compiled from tracks from his shows.. one song I remember was from the sewer zombies...they died with there Willie Nelson t shirts on... which is on one of those tapes that I have.. |
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"One of those people who i can remember exactly where and when i heard he'd died
Without doubt, the most important single person in western music. You never knew what you'd hear next from him- the weird, the wonderful, the WTF? but always interesting...and his voice has a magical calming tone.
Think he'd be a massive fan and and very proud of Ravers, who has taken on the torch from his dad and continued with his own style, but a familiar DNA "
I agree with all you have said about John Peel  |
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"Hey...So how many remember John Peel and also enjoyed listening to him on the radio? and also of course when he was at Glastonbury Festival going on walk about to experience the weird and wonderful RIP John Peel..Glastonbury on BBC2 just is not the same with out you! His son Tom Ravenscroft is also a DJ on BBC radio 6...I enjoy listening to his choice of music too, just like I did his Dads, I'm listening to him right now. Does any one else enjoy tuning in to him? "
yep I used to listen to John Peel on the radio, I listen to bbc radio 6 music and no ididn't realise Tom was John's son |
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"One of those people who i can remember exactly where and when i heard he'd died
Without doubt, the most important single person in western music. You never knew what you'd hear next from him- the weird, the wonderful, the WTF? but always interesting...and his voice has a magical calming tone.
Think he'd be a massive fan and and very proud of Ravers, who has taken on the torch from his dad and continued with his own style, but a familiar DNA
I agree with all you have said about John Peel "
YNWA |
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Wasn't he rumoured to be a suspected paedophile?
I thought I heard that not long after he died and then he didn't seem to get alot of mentions around music anymore but in the last few years his name seems to be widely shared again.
Have I just got mixed up or was as this just brushed over or was it all discredited and he was one of the good guys? |
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"As a kid I had to go to bed ridiculously early, 21:00 in my final year at school. I used to have a Robert’s radio with an ear piece, every night at 22:00 I’d switch the radio on and listen to John Peel, till I fell asleep. I heard a huge variety of music, some of which I still listen to now. He was a massive part of my childhood. "
i used to secretly tune in every monday to thursday night when i was meant to be asleep and listen with one of theose old in-ear things. set the radio to sleep at five past midnight. i was also a keen listener of 'the friday rock show with tommy vance' too. |
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"Wasn't he rumoured to be a suspected paedophile?
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From what i remember, it was around the time that Saville was finally exposed (possibly one of the worst kept secrets and undeniably covered up by the various powers...but thats another story)- but the press were keen to point the finger wherever they could to detract from their own shoddiness.
Reputedly, he had a relationship with a 16 year old when in his early 20's but it was quickly twisted in to he was some sort or sexual predator, despite it being around the time of 60's free love hippiedom and apparently a consensual relationship over several months.
To sum up, never trust the British tabloid trash to ever report the truth correctly- even when they hack somebody’s phone to get the facts  |
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