Heartland

Breaking news on the radio. Apparently a heart attack whilst on holiday. No other details available ...

i just heard. just think, no more peel sessions

just heard it announced on Radio 2, shocker!

Gary Marx and Andrew Eldritch made some t-shirts in anticipation, and huddled by the radio until ... John Peel played the record. They swear he played it twice.

That's absolutely awful! The world has lost a real star. God, he was only 65. Poor Sheila the Prawn...

Don't know what to say really.

Huge loss to music broadcasting!

Gutted

Always looked forward to the new HMHB session on his show. A very sad day indeed.

what a loss
thanks john

Oh god. I only found out just there, reading the title of the thread. That is really awful - I loved that guy. So funny, and he never grew out of his obsession with 'young people's music'!

I hope they play "Teenage Kicks" (proper version) on the radio tonite, in tribute. He'll be missed.

Can you turn off the swearatron for a moment???

F U C K B O L L O C K S C U N T

Not good, not good at all.

Mrs. Gripper still tends to repeat a Peelyism whenever I play a Sisters song: "Rum Tum Tum with The Sisters of Mercy" as he once said.

A poignant memory came into my head- I remember him saying once that he tended to hear people telling him that they listened every night to his show and thinking what dull lives they must lead, and that he rather preferred those who liked to tune in occasionally 'just to check I'm still there.' It's hard to believe that when we tune in next time, he won't be...

RIP.

3 X Sisters sessions & 3 Chameleons sessions.

Thank you John

devastated,
i grew up listening to him ,
on medium wave
in mono
crackles and all
and the music has always been bloody good.
what are we going to do now?certainly no one could replace him.

RIP Mr Peel....

John Peel

R.I.P.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Mus ... peel.dead/

Very sad, almost unbeleivable.

Might be worth trying to request a couple of tracks here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpee ... acks.shtml

LR

They just played Teenage Kicks and Joy Divisions -Atmosphere,the all out winner of his festive 50 compilations over the years.

The Grinn Reaper wrote:They just played Teenage Kicks and Joy Divisions -Atmosphere,the all out winner of his festive 50 compilations over the years.

no more festive 50 either

nigel d wrote:devastated,
i grew up listening to him ,
on medium wave
in mono
crackles and all
and the music has always been bloody good.
what are we going to do now?certainly no one could replace him.

You too?
The ONLY person on radio EVER in the whole F U C K I N WORLD who played Apples and Oranges by Pink Floyd BEFORE it was bloody well released. I went to see Syd and the boys at Hull Polytech back in the days of hippy bells and paisley shirts (yeah, I'm THAT old suckers!) and all because of one JOHN PEEL.
John Peel ... they should name a planet after him.