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10-26-2004, 11:55 AM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Durham, England
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John Peel is dead!
This won't mean much to anyone outside Britain or who buys McFly singles, but I've just found out that John Peel has died today. The guy who gave air time to glam rock, punk, reggae, death metal, britpop etc way before anyone else had even heard of them. He seemed a genuinely nice bloke too.
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10-26-2004, 01:44 PM
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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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He was only 65
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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10-27-2004, 06:19 AM
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Warrior of the House of Hador
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I din't know much about him but I heard a tribute to him on Radio 5 Live and he sounded like a great guy.
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10-29-2004, 02:12 PM
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Woolly Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby
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he was a really great guy. he did a cool program on radio 4 on sat mornings called home truths which was always very amusing. and wat he did for loadsa bands was great, its really sad that hes died.
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10-30-2004, 02:04 AM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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Yeah, I heard he was the one who "discovered" The Datsuns, an nz band that is currently quite successful.
RIP.
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09-27-2005, 10:46 AM
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Dúnedain Ranger of the North
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Ruins of Arnor
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In my rememberence of the dead...
John Peel was the essence of cool!  ... and to be married to emma....
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09-27-2005, 10:55 AM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: In me taters
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Heh. You've reminded me that I got his biog for my birthday and still haven't read it.
Peel was a giant. So many bands owe him for making it a mission to broaden our minds. More hilariously, Mark E Smith (out of The Fall, his favourite band) was interviewed on telly the day he died and gave one of the most surreal and bizarre interviews ever. |
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