John Peel (DJ) has passed away

[jeepster]

the single biggest influence on me as a teenager, shaped my musical taste as well as many other things. i was lucky enough to meet him a few times and found to be one of the nicest people i've ever met, who always had time to talk to anyone.

a great loss both to the world of broadcasting, plus the world as a whole

[RUDD]

A girl who works for me just received an email from one of her mates who she went with on a charity treck trip to Peru two weeks ago.

 

It went something like "Did you know John the radio DJ has just died in Peru, how sad".

 

The girl at work spent almost two weeks with him and did not realise who he was or that he lived about 20 miles from here!!!!!!!!!

 

Its a small world.

[Jim Roper]

Nothing much else to be said really, but had to post something!

 

Sad! Very, Very Sad!

[kleinboet]

Radio/Music has lost another great! condolances to his family. will someone please take their boot out of my stomach!

[Westie]

Oooops.

 

Just started a thread on this without seeing this one.

 

Ignore that thread.

 

A huge loss. But I still have a smile on my face - the only DJ to have entered the house, house, house club that is Fabric, spun a blinding set of totally eclectic tunes and absolutely rocked the place to its foundations.

 

An utter legend.

[chuby]

Very sad.Not only a good dj,but a very good presenter

[Peter Sharpe]

His voice has seemed to form such a soundtrack to my life that I can't imagine what it will be like without it. Teenage Kicks will seem more poignant than ever from now on.

[chappers]

A very sad day for any music that is outside of the mainstream.The end of an era.

RIP John

[Ken L]

I've lost one of my hero's today.

It seems that a lot of people share a similar sentiment.

 

My first memory of John Peel was his voice appearing on an eary Tranasaurus Rex LP, reading a poem about a toad on a marigold comedown.

His show was a regular soundtrack to my teanage years and I still find myself going back to explore the musical genres that he first introduced me to almost 20 years ago. His show had a wonderful relaxed and very human quality that was most obvious when things went wrong - how many times did we listen to a bizzar 10 minute track only to hear John anounce that the next time he played it, he'd try to make sure that it was on at the right speed ?

 

RIP John. There will never be another like you.

[chesters1]

hating radio (all that wasted time when having to change frequencies when crap songs come on) i didnt know he was alive anyway