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a true lover of music, an elitist and casual fans alike, will know what this man brought to the music world. without him some of the greatest bands of the last 40 years may have never gotten the exposure to the everyday listener. many of a band owe their careers to mr peel. he will be missed by many many many people in this world.
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/27/db2701.xml John Peel (Filed: 27/10/2004) John Peel, the disc jockey who died on Monday aged 65, promoted the more esoteric and extreme fringes of contemporary popular music for more than 30 years, becoming a national institution in the process. Peel did not conform to the clichés of the rock 'n' roll fast life: balding, paunchy, badly dressed, he had more the air of an anoraked trainspotter. That was his attraction for generations of listeners, for by eschewing the foibles of pop, and by resolutely championing music that few other DJs would touch, he engendered trust among his angst-ridden and suspicious teenage listeners, retaining their loyalty as they grew up. Always insisting that he had never sought the fame which attached itself to him, he lived in Suffolk, at "Peel Acres", with his wife and children, avoiding any of the glitter normally associated with the music business. Peel somehow managed to appear both enduringly adolescent and old before his time. Relentlessly professional, his trademark was a slightly weary but amused, deadpan style of presentation; he had a dry, self-effacing wit and the ability to broadcast as if he were speaking to just one person. Clearly not on the payroll of any record company, his recommendations carried weight. Time and again, music that seemed marginal when Peel first enthused about it came to be accepted as being at the heart of the history of pop. The appeal of his late-night show on Radio One lay partly in his lack of hyperbole, in his ability to surprise the listener, and in the fact that he clearly cared genuinely about music..... (continued in attached link) |