Mike Terry wrote:

By Douglas Wolk
MSN
Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004

... the music world's overwhelming grief over the death of the
BBC Radio 1 disc jockey suggests that Peel was right up there-remarkably,
for someone who was not a musician himself....

No, "overwhelming grief" is another example of the Bigley factor that
Boris Johnson so rightly pointed out. Peel was a boring unlistenable
nerd.