Good old John Peel

[Titanium]

Was just looking at this vid on YouTube.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjqR8gt8ZYI&feature=related

Actually I'd never seen his wife being interviewed before, so that was nice.
Also didn't realise The Fall had done a total of 24 !! sessions on the show.
Blimey.

 

[Mr Pig]

Good video, thank you.

I remember hearing The Fall on his show, they were one of the acts that made me turn it off ;0)

 

[albal]

spent many xmas's recording his festive 50 & still have them, listen to them a lot. We miss you John. RIP.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've never got on with The Fall but for me there were more reasons to listen to John Peel than not to.
As a young lad I always used to take a tranny to bed (ooer missus!) to hear some interesting music.
I can remember hearing Captain Beefheart for the first time on his show (Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I do). My dad was working in London at the time and I got him to go to Rough Trade records and get me a copy of Safe as Milk, which I've still got. Where else would I have heard that record?!!

 

[Twenty Inch]

Right time, right place, wrong speed.

Wonderful chap.

 

[dodgy]

He's a local lad, born in Heswall. Bit of trivia, a new pub opened about 3 or 4 years ago in Heswall and got named The Ravenscroft, after John's full real name "John Robert Parker Ravenscroft"

 

[Mr Pig]

As a young lad I always used to take a tranny to bed to hear some interesting music.

I did too although he did play a lot of rubbish at times! You'd listen to an hour of mince to hear one blinding song.

 

[Crackle]

He's a local lad, born in Heswall. Bit of trivia, a new pub opened about 3 or 4 years ago in Heswall and got named The Ravenscroft, after John's full real name "John Robert Parker Ravenscroft"

I didn't know that. Know the pub though.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yes, he also wouldn't talk over a record - as he said, 'if they wanted talking on it they'd have put it on themselves!'

 

[Sysagent]

A God amongst men!

Read his autobiography very worthwhile read, it was one of the only times that someone who had died that I didn't know personally caused me to be genuinely upset.

And I ain't embarassed to admit that, he provided me and everyone lese with an insight into music that nobody else did at the time and in my opinion hasn't since.

 

[swee'pea99]

I still have a recording somewhere of an absolutely blinding track he played by a young New Yorker in the days before rap but sort of in that vein ('Hey James Brown...I can't live on your salaree-hee-he') announcing him beforehand by reading from the press release accompanying "this, the last recording made by the recently-deceased New York singer: says here that he's 'an amazing and original young talent'...and I think you might agree when you hear this." Then played this excellent track (which I've never been able to identify since), ending up with - in that laconic tone only he could do - 'amazing, original...and, sadly, dead'. A true one-off.

 

[ColinJ]

Read his autobiography very worthwhile read, it was one of the only times that someone who had died that I didn't know personally caused me to be genuinely upset.

You've just reminded me - I bought it to read at a training camp 2 years ago but I was so tired every evening that I only managed the first couple of chapters. I've just been to check, and there it was still zipped into the lid of my suitcase. I must get round to reading it. (Mind you - I have a book that longers lent me over a year ago that I have to finish reading first! )

JP wrote the first half of the biography but died before finishing it. His wife and kids researched and wrote the second half.

 

[PaulB]

Funnily enough I've been listening to John Peel today. I downloaded a load of HMHB radio sessions from the John Peel and Andy Kershaw shows and the surprise of hearing Peely's voice between songs pleased, then saddened me. What a gem we had in that man.

 

[02GF74]

yep - real shame , top man.

where else would you heasr "who killled bruce lee" bythe glaxo bsbies?

or playing 3 tracks off the first Dead Kennedys album?

remember he'd play something like Teenage Kicks by the Undertones (appartenly his favourite record) and then make some comment ande play it again.

 

[P.H]

Mitch Benn's tribute - A Minutes noise for John - sums it up for me

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KiLeUV98nY