Behind Enemy Lines
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Bad news - John Peel has died. Heart attack. Very sad.
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John Peel RIP
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Behind Enemy Lines
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He suffered a heart attack shortly after being taken ill during a working holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru, with his wife Sheila.
Gutted.
Gutted.
Soul Finger
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- May 12, 2004
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Gutted. A true pioneer. Played some quality drum and bass.
RIP
RIP
eastlondonseagull
Well-known member
Soul Finger said:
Mighty fine man, eclectic taste in all things good musically and a quality broadcaster. Used to love his Home Truths show on R4.
Really sad.
JJ McClure
Go Jags
No way 
The guy is a legend in music and broadcasting.
Very sad news indeed
The guy is a legend in music and broadcasting.
Very sad news indeed
Cian
Well-known member
This is... unexpected
Great man, great tastes in music.
I hope he gets the funeral he wanted (the Undertones playing Teenage Kicks as he gets buried, IIRC) anyway.
Great man, great tastes in music.
I hope he gets the funeral he wanted (the Undertones playing Teenage Kicks as he gets buried, IIRC) anyway.
Sully's Moustache
Member
I'm really saddened by this - I remember listening to his Sounds of the Sixties show when I was at school. He used to play all the alternative stuff rather than the commercial crap. I'll really miss him. RIP.
Knightsworld
Well-known member
Shocked and stunned.
The man is a legend.
R.I.P John
The man is a legend.
R.I.P John
Skaville
Well-known member
Terrible news
Hungry Joe
SINNEN
Terrible news, RIP John.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 26,304
Top bloke. When I was at University I wrote to him asking if I could interview for him for a project I was doing.
I received a phone call in my halls or residence from a "Mr Peel", and it was him indeed.
He invited a group of us round to his house for the day and we sat round his kitchen table whilst he made us tea.
Showed us his massive (and I mean massive) record collection - so big that many of his records had never been played.
Told us many, many stories about his radio one days all the gossip about the DJs, his love of Liverpool FC etc. and how we was still in awe of great rock stars like Kirk Curbain when he met them. He said that he was a very very lucky man because the very thing he loved more than anything was the thing he did as a living.
Was interested in any type of new music he hadn't heard before. A frustrated musician himself, he just loved listening to new bands of any genre. I seem to recall he was listening to death metal that week.
I asked him what his all time favourite song was, and without hestitation he said "Teenage Kicks"
Totally genuine bloke. Totally committed to his family as well.
I received a phone call in my halls or residence from a "Mr Peel", and it was him indeed.
He invited a group of us round to his house for the day and we sat round his kitchen table whilst he made us tea.
Showed us his massive (and I mean massive) record collection - so big that many of his records had never been played.
Told us many, many stories about his radio one days all the gossip about the DJs, his love of Liverpool FC etc. and how we was still in awe of great rock stars like Kirk Curbain when he met them. He said that he was a very very lucky man because the very thing he loved more than anything was the thing he did as a living.
Was interested in any type of new music he hadn't heard before. A frustrated musician himself, he just loved listening to new bands of any genre. I seem to recall he was listening to death metal that week.
I asked him what his all time favourite song was, and without hestitation he said "Teenage Kicks"
Totally genuine bloke. Totally committed to his family as well.
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Scarface
Active member
Terrible when its that sudden.
Wilts
New member
Absolutely gutted. I am a football fan second and a music fan first, and to me personally, the loss of John Peel is far more difficult to take than any footballing legend.
Top bloke, and stands for everything I believe in music-wise. Cannot believe I can't listen to his shows where he digresses on records to informally and indirectly describe exactly how I feel about music.
RIP - legend.
Top bloke, and stands for everything I believe in music-wise. Cannot believe I can't listen to his shows where he digresses on records to informally and indirectly describe exactly how I feel about music.
RIP - legend.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
RIP John.
Without his unrelenting support for all Britain's talented musical nobody's over the last 40 odd years, the music business in Britain would probably be in an even tighter grip of the marketing men than it is.
He inspired more than one generation, and will be sorely missed...
Without his unrelenting support for all Britain's talented musical nobody's over the last 40 odd years, the music business in Britain would probably be in an even tighter grip of the marketing men than it is.
He inspired more than one generation, and will be sorely missed...