Thankfully Colonel Tupperware, you are in a minority in thinking that JP
waxs an nlistenable nerd. If you didn't like John Peel you could choose not
to listen to him.

Personally I found Home Truths one of the highlights of the radio week. John
had an easy style that put people at their ease. He had a rare skill of
listening to and empathising with people, and his programme also highlighted
the amusing and ridiculous in mundane everyday events.

His influence in launcing some of the most influential of populour musicians
is alsop unprecedented. If it hadn't been for John Peel we might never have
heard of T Rex, Black Sabbath, The Smiths, Punk, a number of Jamiacan Reggae
artists etc etc. I for one first discovered Punk and then The Smiths
through listening to his late night show.

All those who do not like bland, sacharine, plastic pop owe him a debt of
thanks.


"Colonel Tupperware" wrote in message
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On 30 Oct 2004 16:28:27 GMT, George Cox
wrote:

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.

True enough

Peel was a boring unlistenable
nerd

Not a nerd, although I used to sometimes wake up in the early hours
with the World Service on playing some unadulterated crap only to find
out is was Peely on his WS weekly show.
I never much went for his taste in music, but as a radio presenter he
was very good, especially some of the more surreal moments on 'Home
Truths.'

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On 30 Oct 2004 16:28:27 GMT, George Cox
wrote:

No, "overwhelming grief" is another example of the Bigley factor that
Boris Johnson so rightly pointed out.

It is indeed.

But I've not yet heard any "overwhelming grief" about Peelie, even
from my devout muso friends. There's a near unanimous liking for the
guy, a sense of loss over the show, even a puzzled acceptance that
someone, somewhere must have liked Home Truths. Yet _nowhere_ have I
seen or heard anything remotely Bigleyesque, Dianaian or that would
offend Boris Johnson.