Longest Gaps Between Peel Session Appearances, How To Follow So That Others Will Willingly Lead, https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/19_January_1992?oldid=271915. He also described Lianne Hall as one of the great English voices. John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. Milburn later took her own life.[25]. He was offered the midnight-to-two shift, which gradually developed into a programme called The Perfumed Garden (some thought it was named after an erotic book famous at the time – which Peel claimed never to have read). Listen online, no signup necessary. After separation from his first wife, Peel's personal life began to stabilise, as he found friendship and support from new Top Gear producer John Walters—and from his girlfriend Sheila Gilhooly, whom he identified on-air as "the Pig". The Misunderstood is the only band that Peel ever personally managed—he first met the band in Riverside, California in 1966 and convinced them to move to London. An online tribute to the late, great John Peel and a celebration of his life and career at Radio 1. For a breakdown of shows by date, see Calendar.For listings by show name, type or station, see Shows. Hopefully, this will develop into the most comprehensive list of Peel shows. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. In 1998, Offspring grew into the magazine-style documentary show Home Truths. [30] Peel had written that, apart from his name, all he wanted on his gravestone were the words, "Teenage dreams, so hard to beat", from the lyrics of "Teenage Kicks". In 1983 Alan Melina and Jeff Chegwin, the music publishers for then-unsigned artist Billy Bragg, drove to the Radio 1 studios with a mushroom biryani and a copy of his record after hearing Peel mention that he was hungry; the subsequent airplay launched Billy Bragg's career.[18]. John Peel honoured by Cotswold Rail Class 47 naming ceremony, Garner, Ken. The final show of the year (except for the Festive Fifty One) is full of epic tracks, but also those odd twisted ones… >>> the best new music, independent of the industry system – back this show on patreon Paypal to zaph@zaphmann.com heard in … These recordings are part of a "reconstructed" version of the complete show. [24], While residing in Dallas, Texas, in 1965, he married his first wife, Shirley Anne Milburn, then aged 15, in what Peel later described as a "mutual defence pact". [54], Several Peel-related compilation albums have been released since his death, including John Peel and Sheila: The Pig's Big 78s: A Beginner's Guide, a project Peel started with his wife that was left unfinished when he died, and Kats Karavan: The History of John Peel on the Radio (2009), a 4 CD box set. In the 1970s, Peel and Sheila moved to a thatched cottage in the village of Great Finborough near Stowmarket in Suffolk, nicknamed Peel Acres. He listed Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica as his number 1, having previously described it as "a work of art". It is alleged that Peel spotted a Rochdale postmark on the envelope containing the tape sent to him by Tractor, then called "The Way We Live".[37]. Soul Makossa: John Peel Tribute. Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Peel passed himself off as a reporter for the Liverpool Echo in order to attend the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald. In Memory Of John Peel Show 20210212. The programme captured much of the creative activity of the underground scene. LAST PARTY John Peel 3rd January 1989. "[17], Peel's reputation as an important DJ who broke unsigned acts into the mainstream was such that young hopefuls sent him an enormous number of records, CDs, and tapes. In fact, we lost money, if I remember correctly, on every single release bar one. Listeners sent Peel letters, poems, and records from their own collections, so that the programme became a vehicle for two-way communication; by the final week of Radio London he was receiving far more mail than any other DJ on the station.[15]. In 1971 he appeared not as presenter but performer, alongside Rod Stewart and the Faces, pretending to play mandolin on "Maggie May". Peel was an occasional presenter of Top of the Pops on BBC1 from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and in particular from 1982 to 1987 when he appeared regularly. Stream 458 episodes of John Peel’s radio show — 846 hours spanning 1967 to 2004. In Memory of John Peel Show 210115 Podcast & Playlist; In Memory of John Peel Show 210108 Podcast & Playlist; In Memory Of John Peel Show 2020 FFO17-1 Podcast (Playlist Jan 1st) In Memory Of John Peel Show 2020 FFO34-18 Podcast (Playlist Jan 1st) In Memory Of John Peel Show 2020 FFO51-35 Podcast (Playlist Jan 1st) "[8], In his posthumously published autobiography, Peel said that he had been raped by an older pupil while at Shrewsbury.[9]. Twenty-Nine Best John Peel Podcasts For 2021. Episode 4 of an 8 part Channel 4 TV series aired in 1999 that featured Peel meeting local musicians in different parts of the UK. In May 2020, an alphabetised catalogue of hundreds of classic Peel Sessions others had previously uploaded to YouTube was published. This is a list of artists (bands and individual musicians) who recorded at least one session for John Peel and his show on BBC Radio 1 from 1967 to his death in 2004. So revered in the UK that he made the top 50 in a BBC poll of ‘Greatest Britons of all time,’ John Peel (1939-2004) shaped popular culture in ways that Americans may never know or understand. After the closure of Radio London in 1967, Peel wrote a column, The Perfumed Garden, for the underground newspaper the International Times (from autumn 1967 to mid-1969), in which he showed himself to be a committed, if critical, supporter of the ideals of the underground. In 1999 Peel presented a nightly segment on his programme titled the Peelennium, in which he played four recordings from each year of the 20th century. Peel's passion for Liverpool F.C. He played classic blues, folk music and psychedelic rock, with an emphasis on the new music emerging from Los Angeles and San Francisco. And one important program was the John Peel Show on Radio. The BBC encouraged as many bands as possible to stage gigs on the 13th, and over 500 gigs took place in the UK and as far away as Canada and New Zealand, from bands ranging from Peel favourites New Order and The Fall, to many new and unsigned bands. Latest was Episode 757: In Memory Of John Peel Show 20210108. Looks like Peel got excited about our An Ordinary Family Visits Hell record, after playing it at least 3 times in his shows in England. [49][50], At the annual Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards, the "John Peel Play More Jazz Award" was named in his honour. Peel presented a programme called Top Gear. The Night Ride programme, advertised by the BBC as an exploration of words and music, seemed to take up from where The Perfumed Garden had left off. John Peel is sometimes confused with the more prolific record producer Jonathan Peel, who was an in-house music producer for EMI before going freelance in 1970.[38]. While working for the insurance company, Peel wrote programs for punched card entry for an IBM 1410 computer (which led to his entry in Who's Who noting him as a former computer programmer), and he got his first radio job, albeit unpaid, working for WRR (AM) in Dallas. In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, in which Peel was voted 43rd. Sessions were usually four tracks recorded and mixed in a single day; as such they often had a rough and ready, demo-like feel, somewhere between a live performance and a finished recording. Between 1995 and 1997, Peel presented Offspring, a show about children, on BBC Radio 4. [31] A headstone featuring the lyrics and the Liver Bird from his favourite football team, Liverpool FC, was placed at his grave in 2008. I liked having a label. At one point, he said that if he died before his producer John Walters, he wanted the latter to play Roy Harper's "When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease". [53], In 2012 Peel was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. a) 1992-01-19 Peel Show L088.mp3; b) 1992-01-19 Peel Show L087a.mp3; c) 1992-01-19 JP L283; 2) John Peel 19920119 - 128 kbps Part 2.mp3; d) 1992-01-19 Peel Show L087b.mp3; e) L118b.aif.mp3; Length. [48], On 13 October 2005, the first "John Peel Day" was held to mark the anniversary of his last show. So I played five or six tracks on the next show and immediately I received mail from people demanding that I never play stuff like that again. The 90 minute segment of the second half of this show is in fairly muffled sound quality. He died on October 25, 2004 in Cuzco, Peru. A Soundcloud user's personal collection of recordings of the John Peel Show has been gaining listeners as word has spread of its existence. [32] Peel's body was buried in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church in Great Finborough, Suffolk. [7] He later recalled an early desire to host a radio programme of his own "so that I could play music that I heard and wanted others to hear". 22 days ago. Episode 756: In Memory Of John Peel Show 2020 FFO17-01. The online archive of the records that forged the music of today. He was the longest-serving Radio 1 DJ who broadcast regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. Siouxsie Sioux was a guest DJ on the show last Wednesday when he was on holiday as was Robert Smith, the lead singer of the Cure, a band Peel also championed in the late 70s. Whilst in Rochdale during the week he stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in the area of Milkstone Road and Drake Street, and would develop long-term associations with the town as the years progressed. Well, I want them to know that I wouldn't."[27]. Broadcast from Peel Acres, Peel's final show on Radio One before his holiday in Peru. He championed their music throughout his career; in 1968, he described their 1966 single "I Can Take You to the Sun" as "the best popular record that's ever been recorded. Ten years on from John Peel's last Radio 1 show, we revisit a session from CAN. However, he had provided narration for others.[20]. His subsequent shows featured a mixture of records and live sessions, a format that would characterise his Radio 1 programmes for the rest of his career. I did quite like it but it was terribly indulgent. a) 00:38:18; b) 00:39:56; c) 00:37:58; 2) 01:35:10; d) 00:37:18; e) 39:15 (from 6:32 to 27:46) Other. His favourite single is widely known to have been "Teenage Kicks" by The Undertones; in an interview in 2001, he stated "There's nothing you could add to it or subtract from it that would improve it. A unique feature of the programme was the inclusion of tracks, mostly of exotic non-Western music, drawn from the BBC Sound Archive; the most popular of these were gathered on a BBC Records LP, John Peel's Archive Things (1970). [35], Peel wrote that "The Festive 50 dates back to what was doubtless a crisp September morning in the early-to-mid Seventies, when John Walters and I were musing on life in his uniquely squalid office. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. On one occasion, the then station controller Derek Chinnery contacted John Walters and asked him to confirm that the show was not playing any punk, which he (Chinnery) had read about in the press and of which he disapproved. [58], In June 2017 Peel's widow Sheila unveiled a blue plaque in his honour in Great Finborough. After his death, the Festive Fifty was continued on Radio 1 by Rob da Bank, Huw Stephens and Ras Kwame for two years, but then given to Peel-inspired Internet radio station Dandelion Radio, and continues to be compiled. He was appointed an OBE in 1998, for his services to British music. It enabled you to put out stuff that you liked without, in those days, having to worry about whether it was going to work commercially. Content, we felt, was of less importance than a snappy Radio Times billing. (JP's final words on the last Top Gear show, 25 September 1975 .) On 26 October 2004 BBC Radio 1 cleared its schedules to broadcast a day of tributes. The final show of 2020 brings the top seventeen of the Festive Fifty One to you in countdown order! He and a friend can be seen in the footage of the 22/23 November midnight press conference at the Dallas Police Department when Oswald was paraded before the media. On his Home Truths BBC radio show, Peel once commented about his own death: I definitely want to be buried, although not yet. The top 20 also included LPs by The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, Pulp, Misty in Roots, Nirvana, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, The Four Brothers, Dave Clarke, Richard and Linda Thompson and The Rolling Stones. John Peel, byname of John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (born Aug. 30, 1939, Heswall, Cheshire, Eng.—died Oct. 25, 2004, Cuzco, Peru), popular British disc jockey who for nearly 40 years, beginning in mid-1960s, was one of the most influential tastemakers in rock music. The main purposes of the centre is to serve as a live venue for music and performance and as a community meeting point. was reflected in his children's names: William Robert Anfield, Alexandra Mary Anfield, Thomas James Dalglish, and Florence Victoria Shankly. Sheila, his wife, discusses the show in some detail at the end of Margrave Of The Marshes (Bantam Press, hardback edition, p.389-90), recalling they both sang along with the Pig's Big 78 by Conway Twitty and that Peel signed off with the words, "I'll be back in your midst at the beginning of November, … [34], The Festive Fifty — a countdown of the best tracks of the year as voted for by the listeners — was an annual tradition of Peel's Radio 1 show. Peel recalled, "I was one of the first lot on Radio 1 and I think it was mainly because ... Radio 1 had no real idea what they were doing so they had to take people off the pirate ships because there wasn't anybody else." A strong automatic record level setting fades up quiet starts to records, only to dramatically fade down just as the tracks should be thundering in firing on all cylinders. [22] He was also in demand as a voice-over artist for television documentaries, such as BBC One's A Life of Grime. Podcast Reviews. The theory behind this device was that it would create employment and force people to buy records and not listen to them free of charge on the air. File b begins, File d starts (duplicating section of file 2). Having had an affinity with the Manchester area from working in a cotton mill in Rochdale in 1959, I wouldn't want to go to one anyway, because they wouldn't let me do what the BBC let me do. Peel's funeral, on 12 November 2004, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was attended by over a thousand people, including many of the artists he had championed. The reception was in London's Regent's Park, with Walters as best man. Underground events he had attended during his periods of shore leave, like the UFO Club and "The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream", together with causes célèbres like the drug "busts" of the Rolling Stones and John "Hoppy" Hopkins, were discussed between records. JOHN Peel Day marks the last ever show of the highly influential radio DJ. A second John Peel day was held on 12 October 2006, and a third on 11 October 2007. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in a multitude of genres including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal, and British hip hop. Peel married in 1797 to Mary White. [56], In May 2012, a campaign was started to turn demolition-threatened Bradford Odeon into the John Peel Creative Arts Centre in the North,[57] though this was ultimately unsuccessful. Peel wore Liverpool football colours (red) and walked down the aisle to the song "You'll Never Walk Alone". John Peel wrote in his autobiography, Margrave of the Marshes, that the band of which he owned the most records was The Fall. When he returned home from a three-week holiday at the end of 1986 there were 173 LPs, 91 12"s and 179 7"s waiting for him. Rod Stewart and Graham Chapman attended. In Memory Of John Peel Show 20210220. Peel appeared occasionally on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. At the NME awards in 2005 he was Hero of the Year and was posthumously given a special award for "Lifelong Service To Music". [23] Unfinished at the time of his death it was completed by Sheila and journalist Ryan Gilbey. Their sheepdog, Woggle, served as a bridesmaid. The marriage was never happy, and although she accompanied Peel back to Britain in 1967, they were soon separated. Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.[1]. When Radio London closed down on 14 August 1967, John Peel joined the BBC's new music station, BBC Radio 1, which began broadcasting on 30 September 1967. Peel married Sheila on 31 August 1974. Never came to invite John Peel Session though :D! Unlike Big L, Radio 1 was not a full-time station, but a hybrid of recorded music and live studio orchestras. John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. Skip navigation Sign in. It featured rock, folk, blues, classical and electronic music. Peel also made regular contributions to BBC Two's humorous look at the irritations of modern life Grumpy Old Men. [28] Walters having died in 2001, it was left to Andy Kershaw to end his tribute programme to Peel on BBC Radio 3 with the song. Peel's show was an outlet for the music of the UK underground scene. Eulogies were read by his brother Alan Ravenscroft and DJ Paul Gambaccini. at the beginning of "Hunted by a Freak", the album's opener. In 1960, aged 21, Peel went to the United States to work for a cotton producer who had business dealings with his father. His later shows also regularly featured live performances (broadcast live, unlike the pre-recorded Peel sessions), mostly from BBC Maida Vale Studios in West London, but occasionally in the Peel Acres living room. [45][46], In 2009 blue plaques bearing Peel's name were unveiled at two former recording studios in Rochdale – one at the site of Tractor Sound Studios in Heywood, the other at the site of the Kenion Street Music Building – to recognise Peel's contribution to the local music industry. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.
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