John Peel 1939-2004
Kellarly
26-10-2004, 14:52
Can't believe this, the man the legend has passed away.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3955369.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm
Ladyflakia
26-10-2004, 14:58
I was just about to start this thread. This was such a shock. He was one of the best DJs I've heard. Rest in peace.
The White Hats
26-10-2004, 15:07
Me too. Not just a great music DJ from back when such things were rarer than hens' teeth in the UK, but also a great general radio presenter who was just getting into his stride. This is sad news.
Kellarly
26-10-2004, 15:07
I know what you mean, i stayed up late just to listen to his show on a tiny old portable radio, listening to it really quietly so i wouldn't wake my parents...the only reason i joined my uni radio station was to play loads of different and wierd stuff like him...just to try and emulate the man...its not gonna be the same without him :( used to listen to his show on radio 4 too, just because the people on it were nuts but actually liked em
Conceptualists
26-10-2004, 15:12
Oh my God. I didn't realise.
I didn't even think he was that old.
What I liked about his show was the fact that he was Radio 1s longest running DJ, and still seemed to have prablems with the equipment.
Schnappslant
26-10-2004, 15:17
Sad yes.. but he did play some of the most awful tripe ever to be heard over the waves in amongst the good music
He wasn't that old :(
It's really sad
Kellarly
26-10-2004, 15:20
Oh my God. I didn't realise.
I didn't even think he was that old.
What I liked about his show was the fact that he was Radio 1s longest running DJ, and still seemed to have prablems with the equipment.
He was only 65...
Conceptualists
26-10-2004, 15:28
He was only 65...
I know, thought he was around ten years younger
Rotted Old Oak-Stump
26-10-2004, 15:28
Another music legend leaves our shores, there are so few people left to try and spot at Glasto its not true...
Planta Genestae
26-10-2004, 16:22
Can't believe this, the man the legend has passed away.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3955369.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm
What an absolute shocker. I can't believe it. May the great man rest in peace.
may he rest in peace, great dj, great personality and totally unprejudiced about music, wouldn't say anything bad about a band until he'd heard them.
New Secundus
26-10-2004, 16:38
He was only 65...
If he was born in 1939, that makes him 75, not 65.
RIP.
the Grokdoc
Planta Genestae
26-10-2004, 16:39
If he was born in 1939, that makes him 75, not 65.
RIP.
the Grokdoc
No it doesn't. Get a calculator.
Solskjaria
26-10-2004, 16:45
A legend has indeed gone...what a complete shock. I can't believe we'll never hear him on the radio again - I grew up with Peel on the Evening Session and even met him once at one of his Peel Sessions gigs (Gene and The Bluetones). I think I speak for many when I say that he was the coolest man around.
Planta Genestae
26-10-2004, 16:47
A legend has indeed gone...what a complete shock. I can't believe we'll never hear him on the radio again - I grew up with Peel on the Evening Session and even met him once at one of his Peel Sessions gigs (Gene and The Bluetones). I think I speak for many when I say that he was the coolest man around.
Amen to that.
Sukafitz
26-10-2004, 16:57
I have no idea who this guy is.
http://www.hawkwindmuseum.co.uk/john%20peel.jpg
General Pinochet
26-10-2004, 17:07
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Dischordiac
26-10-2004, 17:08
If he was born in 1939, that makes him 75, not 65.
It's 2014 ALREADY?!?!