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konaman
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 26, 2004, 20:52
I feel terribly sad.

Met him a couple of times, dj'd with him at Birmingham Uni, he said ' put a 'long version'on ( in the days before 12") so I can get changed', & then appeared in his wedding suit ( Liverpool colours) to do the gig. We cruised Griffin afterwards in his Range Rover , looking to gatecrash a party...we said ' we've got John Peel with us' He said, 'we've got Gram Parsons with us' ( he thought I bore a resemblance), but no one would let us in. He stayed the night in hall, & wrote a charming piece for the next week's Sounds about the various motorcycle parts that shared the room with him.

I used to record his festive 50 shows on my ghetto blaster on the back seat of my mum's Hillman Imp !

He summed up my adolescence, middle age, & my early 'grumpy old men'age.

RIP John, condolences to the family.
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