John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style.
He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music, jungle and dance music. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described him as "the most important man in music for about a dozen years".
Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular "Peel sessions", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that would later achieve great fame. Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.
John Peel (disambiguation)
John Peel may refer to:
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John Peel (Leicester MP)
Sir William John Peel (16 June 1912 – 8 May 2004) was a British Conservative Party politician, and Member of Parliament for Leicester South East from 1957 to 1974.
He attended Wellington College and Queens' College, Cambridge. His previous career had been in the colonial service, surviving imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II, when he was stationed in Singapore, to serve terms as British Resident in Brunei and then Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, now Kiribati and Tuvalu, before retiring in 1951. His father Sir William Peel had been Governor of Hong Kong.
Elected as a member of the House of Commons at a by-election in 1957, he provoked an angry response from both sides of the House in 1959 when he reacted to the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya by saying "There are obvious risks in dealing with desperate and sub-human individuals." In the resulting debate, where Peel's remarks were denounced by Enoch Powell, it was emphasized that Britain needed to accord the same standards of human rights to all continents. Though Peel's tenure of minor government positions was uninterrupted, he never reached the Cabinet.
'John Peel' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
Actors: Dominic Arnall (actor), Jake Arnott (actor), Carl Barât (actor), Mathew Baynton (actor), Marcus Brigstocke (actor), Tom Burke (actor), Jimmy Carr (actor), Clem Cattini (actor), Michael Chalkley (actor), Jess Conrad (actor), James Corden (actor), Gareth Corke (actor), Steve Daly (actor), Che Deedigan (actor), Dominic Adams (actor),
Plot: In the early 1960s self-taught electronics whizz Joe Meek amazingly produces a string of home made hit singles from his studio in his flat above a leather shop in London. His biggest success is the instrumental 'Telstar' but accusations of plagiarism delay royalties. Joe's mercurial temper causes his artists to forsake him for other labels,in particular his young lover Heinz Burt. Now in debt and after unwisely parting from his chief financier Major Banks,Joe finds himself unable to control his life. Increasingly paranoid,believing he is being bugged by rival record companies and that everybody is out to get him,the last straw comes when landlady Violet tells him she is selling the building in which he lives. Joe had once confiscated a shotgun from Heinz. Now it is dangerously close at hand and about to end the Joe Meek story.
Keywords: 1960s, accidental-shooting, archive-footage, based-on-actual-events, based-on-play, bathroom-sex, billboard, boyfriend-boyfriend-relationship, character-name-in-title, composerGenres: Biography, Drama, Music,
Taglines: Hit after hit... someone's going to get hurt
Peel, John Filmography
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1995, role: actor
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1977, role: actor , character name: German Lieutenant
Peel, John Filmography
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Radio DJ
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Narrator
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2000, role: actor , character name: Radio commentator
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2000, role: actor , character name: Big Jon
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1997, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter 1967-
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1994, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
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1994, role: actor , character name: John Past-Bedtime
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1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
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1987, role: actor
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1982, role: actor , character name: Himself - Disc Jockey
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1974, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1964, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
Peel, John Filmography
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2014, role: actor , character name: Glen
Famous quotes by John Peel:
John Peel
ALBUMS
- FabricLive 07: John Peel released: 2002
- John Peel Presents Top Gear released: 1969
FabricLive 07: John Peel
Released 2002- Intro
- Break 'em on Down
- Late Night Blues
- Hipsteppin'
- Needle in a Haystack
- Lust for Life
- Let's Get Small
- There's a Moon Out Tonight
- Mr. Pharmacist
- 15.5 Remake
- Too Much
- In the Midnight Hour
- Moon Hop
- In Love
- Purty Vacant
- Liar
- Lion Rock (Peel session)
- Tom the Peeper
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Clock
- Corn Rigs Tunes
- Identity
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- Teenage Kicks
Born: 1939-08-30
Died: 2004-10-25
