John Peel

[Eric_Olthwaite 0]

A giant and a gent. RIP. :crying

[eyesi 0]

Hearing this news made me feel the same as I did when I heard Joe Strummer had died.

 

May his spirit live on

[monkeyman 1,597]

Bloody shame. I doubt if we'll ever see his like again.

 

Cheers John. :crying

[davethailand 91]

RIP John.

[rkt 0]

a true gent who will be sadly missed. RIP.

[bronto 0]

Eyesi,

 

The world doesn't seem the same since Strummer died . This week is another bad one .

At least we can still listen to Joe's great music.!

 

RIP to 'em both .

[nidnoyham 30]

I remember him co- presenting last years Glastonbury Festival, with a young West Indian girl. A Rap group had just done their thing and after, the cameras switched back to the presenters. " Wasn't that just great ? " enthused the young lady. John gave her a sideways look, paused and said, in his own inimatable way

" Not my cup of tea really "

 

It made me chuckle

[nok 0]

Strange really.

 

Sitting at work trying not to cry over a man i never met

 

who only played records.

[Eric_Olthwaite 0]

The first time I heard him was back in the Seventies, when I put the radio on in the middle of some seemingly endless, repetetive dirge about "Life is Life." Eventually it finished and there was a really long pregnant pause before this pithy voice drifted on and sighed, "God, I wish I'd thought of that..." Loved those stories about how he used to sit up into the small hours listening to every single amateur demo tape/CD sent to him, how he couldn't bring himself to chuck any of them out afterwards, and had to move to a bigger house to accomodate them all. I doubt you're on your own in shedding a silent tear, Nok. :crying

[Lazyboy 0]

A fantastic broadcaster, and a gent too.

 

He never played the professional scouser card like so many other liverpudlians, and I loved him just for that.

[Ilich Ramirez Sanchez 0]

Met him at Glastonbury once. A top bloke. Probably the only radio 1 presenter more interested in the music than his career.

[scarface 0]

Yes, a true gent. RIP.