John Peel
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Interview by Nick Doherty, Jockey Slut, 2002
Celeb 1: Howie B: With this playlist culture, when do you decide what's going to be played on your radio show? ...
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Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages audio, July 1989
The DJ attempts to explain himself; argues he's more a fan than part of the machine; discusses the diversity of his listenership; touches on his kids' relationship with music; holds forth on his paymaster, Radio 1, and what gets played on it; bemoans the poor quality of current UK music; disputes his status as an indie figurehead; and ruefully answers Martin's questions about his commercial voice-overs...
File format: mp3; file size: 52.8mb, interview length: 55' 00" sound quality: ***
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Interview by Alex Ogg, Spiral Scratch, May 1991
NOT THAT any introduction is really necessary, but how about this: ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 30 September 1995
This Saturday, JOHN PEEL will interview JARVIS COCKER on Radio 1FM and play tracks from PULP'S forthcoming album. ANDREW MUELLER goes to Peel Acres to ...
John Peel: Peel And The Pig — An Everyday Story Of Country Folk
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 February 1973
JOHN PEEL is a sensitive figure with a sturdy patch on the crotch of his jeans and a tendency towards schoolgirls and sensible underwear. A ...
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, August 1999
"WHY DO people always have a go at Belgium?" These are the first words uttered by John Peel on the night of Tuesday 24th August, ...
John Peel: Pied Piper for Four Generations
Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 27 October 2004
IF YOU WANT to know what influence John Peel had, and what he stood for, listening to Radio One in the hours after his death ...
John Peel: Peelin' In The Years
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, January 2003
Radio 1's venerated platter spinner John Peel has just released his first dance mix CD. Daryl Easlea polishes up the wheels of steel ...
Profile and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Q, December 1986
JOHN PEEL IS sitting in his pyjamas in the kitchen of his Suffolk home. It is a Sunday afternoon. On the wall is a Radio ...
Memoir by David Buckley, MOJO, 1 September 2010
God's DJ would have been 71 on Monday. David Buckley recalls a birthday encounter for MOJO online... ...
"It's Very Scary This Whole Personality Cult" — Number One Disc Jockey John Peel
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 21 December 1968
IT'S IRONIC that the top number one ace disc-jockey of the year in our poll is one of the few people in the business who ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, New Musical Express, 21 September 1996
Thousands, if not millions, owe their pop sensibilities to JOHN PEEL, indie's very own godfather. But at 58, IAN FORTNAM asks the "old feller" if ...
Audio transcript of interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages transcripts, July 1989
This is a transcript of Martin's audio interview with John Peel. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, November 1989
Guru to innumerable pale and interesting persons, champion of all things noisesome and "challenging", fully paid-up Good Bloke... When John Peel celebrated his 50th birthday ...
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 19 August 1993
"HELLO, I'M A little fat chap that plays records on the radio," DJ John Peel announced at the start of a recent broadcast. ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971
In the three years since he first won the Top DJ title in the MM Poll, John Peel has been mocked and worshipped. Today he wipes the ...
Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, 21 May 1977
THERE IS no need to ask where John Peel was in the summer of love. Anybody with enough brain-cells left to recall the era will ...
Isleys and Peel 'Do Their Thing'
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 2 August 1969
THERE IS no obvious connection between John Peel and the Isley Brothers. Both are in a different "bag," yet both have one thing in common ...
When Robert Sandall met John Peel
Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 31 October 2004
Last words of middle England's accidental hero. ...
Obituary by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2004
LONG BEFORE we met, John Peel felt like a good friend. For those millions of us who spent our adolescence glued to his late-night radio ...
Terri Hooley: I Need Excitement
Book Excerpt by Stuart Bailie, Dig With It Books, November 2023
NOTE: This is an excerpt from Seventy-Five Revolutions, Stuart Bailie's book about the legendary owner of Belfast's Good Vibrations record store. Buy the book here. ...
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