Dead John Peel

[Tempus Fugit 214]

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[Harvester Of Souls 40]

Is it to coincide with his new book?

Ghost written was it.

Either that or conspiracy is afoot.

[Guest iain]

i think its designed to take focus away from Maggie Thatchers 80th birthday celebrations.Peel was no fan of old Maggie

[Cerberus 302]

He died a year ago today - I just wonder what he'd have made of this.

 

Bemused, is my guess.

[Guest iain]

Im not sure ..he might have preferred it to be called Tulip Liverpool or something instead seeing as its red.I cant criticise all the commercialism surrounding the anniversary of his death though seeing as ive just bought his autobiography and 264 of his radio one shows off ebay!

[Lady Die 63]

Im not sure ..he might have preferred it to be called Tulip Liverpool or something instead seeing as its red.I cant criticise all the commercialism surrounding the anniversary of his death though seeing as ive just bought his autobiography and 264 of his radio one shows off ebay!

So you're a fan then?

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Peel's tombstone blues

 

Surely they could have found space to add "was guilty of responsible for the only airing of 'arry's band on national radio"?!

[maryportfuncity 10,655]

Railway engine named in his honour. Cue a flurry of newspaper headlines punning on the word 'tracks' and Peel die-hards speculating on whether it'll go at the right speed.

[Phantom 2,534]

I still find it hard to comprehend that next week will be the 4th anniversary of his death

Finished reading his autobiography "Margrave of the Marshes" just the other week.

[themaninblack 2,112]

I still find it hard to comprehend that next week will be the 4th anniversary of his death

Finished reading his autobiography "Margrave of the Marshes" just the other week.

 

I think it is no coincidence that British Alternative Rock has declined since he died...

[Phantom 2,534]

I still find it hard to comprehend that next week will be the 4th anniversary of his death

Finished reading his autobiography "Margrave of the Marshes" just the other week.

 

I think it is no coincidence that British Alternative Rock has declined since he died...

 

Well it took 3 people to replace him on his show.

Without him, there are so many bands that wouldn't have got airplay

I remember seeing a magazine in my dentist's waiting room that had an interview with a local DJ.

He stated that it was because of John Peel that he wanted to get into the radio business.

I wish I could remember the DJs name as I was surprised that being 4000 miles away from home that someone would pay homage to him

[Monoclinic 39]

I still find it hard to comprehend that next week will be the 4th anniversary of his death

Finished reading his autobiography "Margrave of the Marshes" just the other week.

 

I think it is no coincidence that British Alternative Rock has declined since he died...

 

Well it took 3 people to replace him on his show.

Without him, there are so many bands that wouldn't have got airplay

I remember seeing a magazine in my dentist's waiting room that had an interview with a local DJ.

He stated that it was because of John Peel that he wanted to get into the radio business.

I wish I could remember the DJs name as I was surprised that being 4000 miles away from home that someone would pay homage to him

 

He did used to live and work over your side of the pond. I was just wikiing this out to make sure I wasn't making it up and found that his page has been translated into seventeen (17) languages. Shove awards, that's prestige!

[Phantom 2,534]

I still find it hard to comprehend that next week will be the 4th anniversary of his death

Finished reading his autobiography "Margrave of the Marshes" just the other week.

 

I think it is no coincidence that British Alternative Rock has declined since he died...

 

Well it took 3 people to replace him on his show.

Without him, there are so many bands that wouldn't have got airplay

I remember seeing a magazine in my dentist's waiting room that had an interview with a local DJ.

He stated that it was because of John Peel that he wanted to get into the radio business.

I wish I could remember the DJs name as I was surprised that being 4000 miles away from home that someone would pay homage to him

 

He did used to live and work over your side of the pond. I was just wikiing this out to make sure I wasn't making it up and found that his page has been translated into seventeen (17) languages. Shove awards, that's prestige!

 

But in those days he was John Ravenscroft. I grew up in London and listening to his show on BBC Radio one was a weekly ritual for me.

I only moved to the States about 5 years ago.

Yes it's true he lived and worked in Texas for a few years which is where he met his first wife.

He did state in his autobiography that in some clips of the Lee Harvey Oswald assassination that he can be seen in the background. I've tried to view this footage but not been able to pick him out anywhere

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Will he be dragged into Jimmygate and outed as a paelophile? Am I allowed to post such heretic tittle-tattle from the vile Express?

 

Ah well, in for a penny, gossip and be damned ... I hope they get Bat*s, Tra*is, Edmon*s, Blac*burn et al. Radio 1 = Radio 14, it seems. And who groped Liz Kershaw? Her brother? David Blunkett?

 

I suppose they could get every 60s/70s rocker too.

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Will he be dragged into Jimmygate and outed as a paelophile? Am I allowed to post such heretic tittle-tattle from the vile Express?

 

I thought he was already acknowledged as a paedo, but in the fun Jerry Lee Lewis sense of the term rather than the nasty Kevin Keeg*n sense of the term.

 

Anyway, his tastes eventually matured.

 

[Guest Guest]

Having one relationship with a 15 year old girl,who claimed to be much older, when he was in his 20s, hardly equates to Jimmy Saviles predatory and vile behaviour. Get things into perspective!

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Having one relationship with a 15 year old girl,who claimed to be much older, when he was in his 20s, hardly equates to Jimmy Saviles predatory and vile behaviour. Get things into perspective!

No probs, Sheila. Perspective acknowledged, as I said to Jez Forrest.

[maryportfuncity 10,655]

_{No way is Peel the alleged Paedo, apart from anything else the maths suggest his show and hers were so far apart he wouldn't have been around. Peel was outspoken at the time about the locker room mentality of some of his more moronic colleagues and often cited a Radio One Funday at Mallory Park as the nadir of the whole thing. The sight of Tony Blackburn being ferried across the lake by a Womble driving a speedboat being a particularly surreal moment.}

 

_{I'd say DLT (loved being surrounded by girls, grabbed them as hard as Savile, not particularly interested in music) is a short-odds candidate.}

 

_{Incidentally. I've a hunch there's a cracking A-Z Peel tribute show on a very obscure station between 10 and midnight tomorrow, link: http://www.miskinradio.co.uk}

 

_{Same show is threatening planning to play Harry McNally's greatest hits soon, there will be advance warning hereabouts when that happens.}

[themaninblack 2,112]

I thought he was already acknowledged as a paedo, but in the fun Jerry Lee Lewis sense of the term rather than the nasty Kevin Keeg*n sense of the term.

 

Really? What's the damage on that one then?

[the_engineer 1,415]

Why are people thinking its john peel , I thought freddie star was outed as the third man ?

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

I thought he was already acknowledged as a paedo, but in the fun Jerry Lee Lewis sense of the term rather than the nasty Kevin Keeg*n sense of the term.

 

Really? What's the damage on that one then?

 

Just google "kevin keegan motorway lay-by baseball bat attack"

[themaninblack 2,112]

I thought he was already acknowledged as a paedo, but in the fun Jerry Lee Lewis sense of the term rather than the nasty Kevin Keeg*n sense of the term.

 

Really? What's the damage on that one then?

 

Just google "kevin keegan motorway lay-by baseball bat attack"

 

Just rumour and conjecture although the event was one of the more inexplicable episodes in Keegan's life I suppose...

[Toast 16,151]

Why are people thinking its john peel , I thought freddie star was outed as the third man ?

 

No one has said that to my knowledge.

[the_engineer 1,415]

Why are people thinking its john peel , I thought freddie star was outed as the third man ?

 

No one has said that to my knowledge.

 

''No way is Peel the alleged Paedo''

 

I just read this to be honest from maryport's post thought the discussion was people saying he was the third man.

[Lard Bazaar 3,800]

I think the Peel thing has got way out of hand - they've picked up on his first marriage and some comments he made fucking ages ago about how young girls would come to his dressing room offering all sorts of shenanigans and about how people didn't say no to it - additionally, the Daily Fucking Mail illustrated their story about him with a picture of him dressed up as a schoolgirl - and Bob's shagging your Aunty, he's some sort of predatory paedo.

 

A vast difference between what Peel described, and what has allegedly happened to Savile's 'victims', in my opinion.