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"John Peel has died..."

...just heard it on the radio. On holiday in Peru or something, no more details as yet....

EDIT:

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm[/URL]

He did indeed play a lot of music, and most of it I would never had heard without him. However, some of the stuff he did play was complete toss.

Regardless, he played whatever he wanted to, and (as has already been mentioned) he didn't play things he thought were trendy, he played whatever he liked. Something which is lacking in pretty much every radio station in this country now...

I don't really give a damn about "celebrities" dying (what have they ever done for you *really*? ), but with Peel I'd say he's the exception to my rule. I remember listening to his programme at 17 years old, with a couple of mates, getting bongoed and listening to him play everything from Sheep on drugs via some obscure early century blues via Pitchshifter via Death metal via Orbital via Sensor

He opened my mind to music I didn't know existed, and I'll always remember him for that. A sad loss.

Very surprising to hear the news. It was a heart attack, apparently.

truly this blows :(
no more late drives made more bearable by the sheer range of stuff he used to play. the man was a legend and played some fantastic stuff that would NEVER have gotten airtime otherwise.

this sucks :(

Can't say I'll miss him as I hadn't heard of him today, but it appears that the guy will be missed. Shame :0(

Heard on the radio driving back from Bournemouth, hell of a shock, heart attack at 65, it's not on.

Hopefully he's left enough of his mark here as it is anyway, best you can hope when someone like this dies, that someone will take note, do things from their heart, not from what you think generation x wants.

I think I'll miss him actually.

Only heard about this a second ago on late night news.

Appears like an amazing guy, discovering so many people, unbelievable!

Smiths,
Oasis,
Manics,
Plus loads more bands which were just listed.

mattributé wrote:
> I quite like Lowe, even if he is insincere.
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He used to do the early evening slot on Xfm and continually boasted about how he played "New music, old music, just good music".
So I phoned and requested a song
"Sure sure guy, what's your flavour?"
"Tool. Lateralus album if poss, anything"
"Ah...can't play Tool, it's a downer"
"But you were talking yesterday about their gig was the best this year you'd been too"
"Yeah"

Assface

I heard about this today and was genuinely gutted. Used to love his late show. The man was a Legend.

I quite like Lowe, even if he is insincere.