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Maybe one just for the brits, but the great British Broadcaster/DJ John Peel died today at the age of 65.

Practically a British institution, John Peel worked for Radio1 since it started in 1961. He was on a long awaited holiday in Peru where he suffered a heart attack.

He had one of the best voices on radio. I met him in 1999 at Glastonbury festival, when I was working on the crew. He ate my food! (Among 500 others each mealtime ) A really nice guy who will be sadly missed by his family, friends, and the nation. R.I.P. John, and thanks for the music..!

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I heard

I'll miss him!!

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I like to think that whoever designed marine life was thinking of it as basically an entertainment medium. That would explain some of the things down there, some of the unearthly biological contraptions

oooh I'll miss him too! The BBC World Service just won't be the same without that voice and that personality! Lovely man!

this is honestly the only time i've actually felt miserable at a celebrity death. it's worse than elliot smith, though given peel's age i'm not quite sure why this should be. he was the only DJ left in the world it seemed who still played the music he thought was good.
thanks to peel for getting me into sonic youth, melt banana, the fall, and doing the same kind of thing to plenty of generations before mine.
I get the feeing radio one will never play some motown b-side straight after a minute-long grindcore song ever again, and that is an extremely bad thing. He did seem to be the onluy one stemming a tide of absolute homoenous idiocy on british commercial radio, and good as home truths etc were, it was his music radio show, as well as his genuine likeability, that was his greatest achievement.
there is no-one who gives even the slightest hint of being able to step into his shoes.
RIP

I didn't know

His show turned me onto all kinds of music when I was a teenager in the late 70's and 80's. Never realised he was that old, making me feel my age now.

For people who never heard of him or didn't grow up at that time, his profound influence on a generation of music lovers won't be understood. He's a lighthouse in a sea of mediocrity.

RIP.

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Some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability.

'that old'.. Blimey.. he was only 65! I know thats twice as old as me but.. well.. its still not 'that old'..!!

R.I.P.