John Peel, a longtime British Broadcasting Corp. disc jockey
whose enthusiasm for the offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure
launched the careers of dozens of bands, has died, the BBC
said Tuesday. He was 65.
bau haus, joy division, the cure, hendrix, david bowie & many others played on the peel sessions...
he is of a time where you could be from england get a job on the radio in texas then san bernadino then go back to the british isles and broadcast off the coast in a boat for pirate radio. from there he finagled, charmed or was invited with open arms to join the bbc for thirty years. they could not have made a better choice. the world of music would be severely different if he had not been a part.
the world is poorer with his departure.
whose enthusiasm for the offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure
launched the careers of dozens of bands, has died, the BBC
said Tuesday. He was 65.
bau haus, joy division, the cure, hendrix, david bowie & many others played on the peel sessions...
he is of a time where you could be from england get a job on the radio in texas then san bernadino then go back to the british isles and broadcast off the coast in a boat for pirate radio. from there he finagled, charmed or was invited with open arms to join the bbc for thirty years. they could not have made a better choice. the world of music would be severely different if he had not been a part.
the world is poorer with his departure.