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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 01:05R.I.P. John Peel.
I was taken aback when I logged onto the BBC news site and read that he was dead. Quite surprised that I was so upset - I didn't even listen to his shows that often.
It's just that he was ... there. Kind of an institution, always playing the newest, best, most out-there music. So many of my favourite bands got their first radio play through him. So down-to-earth, laid-back and unassuming.
He started broadcasting the year I was born, and was 65 when he died today (well, yesterday now) but was still open to new music, not content to sink into comfortable easy listening or get in a rut.
He was the prime example of how age isn't about how many years your body has been around, it's about the way you think, the way you approach life. God rest your soul John.
I was taken aback when I logged onto the BBC news site and read that he was dead. Quite surprised that I was so upset - I didn't even listen to his shows that often.
It's just that he was ... there. Kind of an institution, always playing the newest, best, most out-there music. So many of my favourite bands got their first radio play through him. So down-to-earth, laid-back and unassuming.
He started broadcasting the year I was born, and was 65 when he died today (well, yesterday now) but was still open to new music, not content to sink into comfortable easy listening or get in a rut.
He was the prime example of how age isn't about how many years your body has been around, it's about the way you think, the way you approach life. God rest your soul John.
