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RIP John Peel

Bed Head

12:05 / 26.10.04

Unbelievably so. A moment of silence, please. Then 3 minutes of the loudest noise you can lay your hands on.

Punji Steak

12:10 / 26.10.04

Absolutely, what else is there to say? Unbelievable. RIP mate...

Sax

12:13 / 26.10.04

Heart attack in Peru, apparently. And only 65.

Ariadne

12:13 / 26.10.04

I just saw this on the wires and came here to post something. Bloody hell. I'm very thrown by this.
The only details I know are that he had a heart attack while on holiday in Peru, with his wife Sheila.
It's so sad.

Bed Head

12:25 / 26.10.04

Oh dear. Proper thread here. Mourn all over, but post reactions and reminisces there, I guess.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:23 / 26.10.04

Fuuuuuccckkkk.

haus of fraser

14:25 / 26.10.04

Very very sad- an absolutely irreplaceable man with a genuine place in history...
I remember being 15/16 years old taping festive 50's armed with 5-6 C90 cassettes- how much wonderful music that would never have got to me without this one man? memories of listening to srange noises and bands that i'd have never never otherwise heard... and obscure bands that i'll never hear again..

I saw him about a month ago in soho and wanted to say how much he had meant to me when i was growing up- but I stayed cool and ignored him - i wish i had spoken to him now.

I have to say i'm gutted...

Lilly Nowhere Late

14:48 / 26.10.04

This is such a blow to the universe. I was strolling around Tate Modern today when I got the text from my husband. I felt like I should make a public announcement right then and there.
What is wrong with the world? What will we do on Saturday mornings without Home Truths? His poor family. The poor everything everywhere. John Peel was possibly one of the only celebrities I'd be so gutted about. He was privvy to nearly everything musical in my life.

hhhhmmmm.

unhappy.

Gypsy Lantern

14:58 / 26.10.04

It's somehow unfathomable to get your head round isn't it. How can there be no John Peel in the world?

An extra candle on the altar next week.

John Peel and Sir Coxsone Dodd in the space of twelve months...

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17:09 / 26.10.04

We just lost one of the coolest sixty something men on the planet today didn't we? I just realised that. Sometimes you really don't know what you've got until it's gone.

unheimlich manoeuvre

18:11 / 26.10.04

gutted.

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20:12 / 26.10.04

Been holding off posting until I heard the tributes. All been good so far. The best came on Tom Robinson's show when someone said that many of us are amazed to be smiling because we just realised not what we've lost, but what we might not ever have had. Thanks John: the George Bailey of music.
Every time Napalm Death rings, Mark E Smith gets another set of wings in Heaven.
This is our JFK. Don't spoil it.

Lilly Nowhere Late

06:25 / 27.10.04

The JFK thing: my friend Nancy and I did this, committed to our memory where we were when we heard. Incidentally it was the Rothko room at Tate Modern, with my 3 year old daughter trying to convince me it would be ok for her to cross the boundary strings to touch the paintings to see if they were soft.

Loomis

07:41 / 27.10.04

I never normally feel actual sorrow at the death of someone I've never met, but this is really horrible. I even had a dream last night where I was crying about it. Odd, especially as I almost never cry (either asleep or awake).

I didn't grow up with John as a music source, but Home Truths is/was one of the best things about living in the UK. It is quite bound up in my relationship with this country and my sense of place here. I wonder if it will be continued, and I wonder how I'll feel if it is. The guy who fills in for him is very good, but I dunno ...

Mourne Kransky

21:19 / 27.10.04

Being of the Perfumed Garden generation, this has hit us oldies hard. It's a great tribute to the value of the man and the difference he made that it's not just us retired hippies welling up but generations born since too.

He was fearless with his playlist and, amid the energetic and esoteric wtf would be gems that got no play anywhere else. I vividly remember him talking openly about having caught a venereal disease and the scandal that caused in those not-so-swinging years. Teenage Kicks lyrics on his headstone? God bless that lovely, irreplaceable man.

Big hugs to the family, whom you kind of got to know through the years too from listening to his calmly intense ramblings.

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23:12 / 27.10.04

I know there's a Music thread, but I think this question is in keeping with Convo. Should we all go to his funeral and meet with each other?

rizla mission

07:35 / 28.10.04

Is there going to be a public service or similar?

Mourne Kransky

01:12 / 30.10.04

State funeral! Barbelites and innumerable others lined along the Mall, weeping copiously and grooving along to Barrington Levy and early Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Benny the Ball

02:24 / 30.10.04

Heard about this on a radio station in LA, was happy that it was important enough to make the news but shocked by it completely.

Minutes silences all round (but at the wrong speed, naturally)...

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20:50 / 30.10.04

Minutes silences all round (but at the wrong speed, naturally)...

Surely you mean (Scouse accent) "Fades in slowly that one......"

Mourne Kransky

01:11 / 31.10.04

And the Readers Wifes paid appropriate tribute to the Man at Duckie tonight. God, it still hurts that he's gone.

rizla mission

09:59 / 01.11.04

Minutes silences all round

There was an attempt to organise a Minute's Noise on Firday, which was a cool idea.. sadly I missed it due to being in work.

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