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.
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 (born 1954) is a British writer, best known for his TV series tie-in novels and novelisations. He has written under several pseudonyms, including "John Vincent" and "Nicholas Adams". He lives in Long Island, New York. While his wife is a US citizen, Peel continues to travel under a British passport.
Career
During the 1980s, Peel wrote a licensed spin-off novel based on the popular 1960s TV series The Avengers, titled Too Many Targets. He is also known for his various books based on Doctor Who, Star Trek and James Bond Jr. (written as "John Vincent").
Doctor Who books
A friend of the television writer Terry Nation, Peel wrote novelisations of several Doctor Who stories for Target Books featuring Nation's Daleks; he is reportedly one of the few writers to have been willing to do so, given the high percentage of the author's fee that Nation's agents demanded for the rights to use the Daleks. For similar reasons, Peel is one of the few novelists to have used the Daleks in full-length, original Doctor Who novels, examples of which include War of the Daleks (1997) and Legacy of the Daleks (1998), written for the BBC BooksEighth Doctor Adventures range. Neither novel was especially well received by fans of the series, in part due to Peel's re-writing of Dalek history as depicted in the TV series (in particular the destruction of Skaro in the 1988 serial Remembrance of the Daleks), to bring their story more into line with Nation's vision.
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.
Sir John Harold PeelKCVOFRCOGFRCSFRCP (10 December 1904 – 31 December 2005) was a leading British obstetrician and gynecologist, who was Surgeon-Gynaecologist to HM The Queen from 1961 to 1973, present at a number of royal births.
Studying and specialising in gynaecology at King's College London School of Medicine, London, he qualified as a doctor in 1930, and passed his membership exams for the Royal College of Physicians in 1932. Appointed consultant surgeon for obstetrics and gynaecology at King's College Hospital, in 1937 he moved to the Princess Beatrice Hospital in London, where he remained as a consultant until 1965.
Between 1948 and 1967, Peel was director of clinical studies at King's College Hospital Medical School. He was an examiner at around a dozen British universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, London and Bristol.
Jo Whiley introducing John Peel Night on BBC2 from 29th August 1999.
published: 23 Oct 2013
John Peel Intro (Live Broadcast 1970)
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Live In London 1970
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published: 12 Jun 2018
lfo take control ( with JOHN PEEL intro )
LFO " TAKE CONTROL " written and produced be Varley / Bell
published: 18 Oct 2019
Tyrannosaurus Rex 1967 Intro- John Peel
Marc Bolan early years
published: 12 Oct 2015
John Peel's First Ever Radio Appearance
John Peel's first ever radio appearance was on American radio station WRR, where he was introduced by Bill "Hoss" Carroll on Kat's Karavan in 1961. John Peel's real name was John Ravenscroft and the audio consists of the first 25 minutes of the show.
published: 08 Mar 2017
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (c/w John Peel intro & outro, 3 Oct 1978)
The famous lead track from the “Teenage Kicks” EP (Good Vibrations GOT-4) released in September, 1978.
Huge thanks to Chris Hall at the Perfumed Garden blog for providing such an awesome archive of the John Peel show:
http://theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/
The following info comes from:
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Teenage_Kicks
This song by the Belfast band the Undertones comes from the 'True Confessions' EP originally released in September 1978 by Belfast record shop owner Terri Hooley on his own Good Vibrations label in an initial pressing of 2,000 copies (Hooley claims it cost £100 to record, at Wizard Studios in Belfast). Ken Garner relates that it is unclear how JP received his copy: Feargal Sharkey claims he sent him one, but Hooley counter-claims that he left a copy at Radio 1 f...
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John Peel Intro (Live Broadcast 1970) · Joni Mitchell And James Taylor
Live In London 1970
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Relea...
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John Peel Intro (Live Broadcast 1970) · Joni Mitchell And James Taylor
Live In London 1970
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Released on: 2018-06-12
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John Peel Intro (Live Broadcast 1970) · Joni Mitchell And James Taylor
Live In London 1970
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Released on: 2018-06-12
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John Peel's first ever radio appearance was on American radio station WRR, where he was introduced by Bill "Hoss" Carroll on Kat's Karavan in 1961. John Peel's ...
John Peel's first ever radio appearance was on American radio station WRR, where he was introduced by Bill "Hoss" Carroll on Kat's Karavan in 1961. John Peel's real name was John Ravenscroft and the audio consists of the first 25 minutes of the show.
John Peel's first ever radio appearance was on American radio station WRR, where he was introduced by Bill "Hoss" Carroll on Kat's Karavan in 1961. John Peel's real name was John Ravenscroft and the audio consists of the first 25 minutes of the show.
The famous lead track from the “Teenage Kicks” EP (Good Vibrations GOT-4) released in September, 1978.
Huge thanks to Chris Hall at the Perfumed Garden blog fo...
The famous lead track from the “Teenage Kicks” EP (Good Vibrations GOT-4) released in September, 1978.
Huge thanks to Chris Hall at the Perfumed Garden blog for providing such an awesome archive of the John Peel show:
http://theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/
The following info comes from:
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Teenage_Kicks
This song by the Belfast band the Undertones comes from the 'True Confessions' EP originally released in September 1978 by Belfast record shop owner Terri Hooley on his own Good Vibrations label in an initial pressing of 2,000 copies (Hooley claims it cost £100 to record, at Wizard Studios in Belfast). Ken Garner relates that it is unclear how JP received his copy: Feargal Sharkey claims he sent him one, but Hooley counter-claims that he left a copy at Radio 1 for the DJ after trying without success to sell it to some major labels (Garner, K., The Peel Sessions, p. 102).
What is beyond dispute is that John programmed all four tracks (Teenage Kicks/Smarter Than U/True Confessions/Emergency Cases) into his 12 September 1978 show, and played the lead track repeatedly over the next two weeks. This led to a record deal with Sire and the single was re-released on that label in October, going on to make number 31 in the UK charts.
The song was among the bonus tracks added to the first Undertones album when it was reissued with a new cover after a few months. Peel chose it as his contribution to a programme where various personalities read out their favourite poems, and he noted that Sheila had promised to play it at his funeral. As he additionally requested, the opening line, "Teenage dreams so hard to beat" (a misquotation of the actual lyrics "A teenage dream's so hard to beat") was inscribed on his tombstone.
In March 2018 Teenage Kicks was the winner of the "Debut Singles World Cup" competition on the Steve Lamacq show on BBC Radio 6 Music, beating Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in the 'final' (and beating Damned, Oasis and Sex Pistols along the way). Lamacq played the winning track with a recorded introduction by John Peel.
#TheUndertones #JohnPeel #Punk
The famous lead track from the “Teenage Kicks” EP (Good Vibrations GOT-4) released in September, 1978.
Huge thanks to Chris Hall at the Perfumed Garden blog for providing such an awesome archive of the John Peel show:
http://theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/
The following info comes from:
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Teenage_Kicks
This song by the Belfast band the Undertones comes from the 'True Confessions' EP originally released in September 1978 by Belfast record shop owner Terri Hooley on his own Good Vibrations label in an initial pressing of 2,000 copies (Hooley claims it cost £100 to record, at Wizard Studios in Belfast). Ken Garner relates that it is unclear how JP received his copy: Feargal Sharkey claims he sent him one, but Hooley counter-claims that he left a copy at Radio 1 for the DJ after trying without success to sell it to some major labels (Garner, K., The Peel Sessions, p. 102).
What is beyond dispute is that John programmed all four tracks (Teenage Kicks/Smarter Than U/True Confessions/Emergency Cases) into his 12 September 1978 show, and played the lead track repeatedly over the next two weeks. This led to a record deal with Sire and the single was re-released on that label in October, going on to make number 31 in the UK charts.
The song was among the bonus tracks added to the first Undertones album when it was reissued with a new cover after a few months. Peel chose it as his contribution to a programme where various personalities read out their favourite poems, and he noted that Sheila had promised to play it at his funeral. As he additionally requested, the opening line, "Teenage dreams so hard to beat" (a misquotation of the actual lyrics "A teenage dream's so hard to beat") was inscribed on his tombstone.
In March 2018 Teenage Kicks was the winner of the "Debut Singles World Cup" competition on the Steve Lamacq show on BBC Radio 6 Music, beating Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in the 'final' (and beating Damned, Oasis and Sex Pistols along the way). Lamacq played the winning track with a recorded introduction by John Peel.
#TheUndertones #JohnPeel #Punk
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John Peel Intro (Live Broadcast 1970) · Joni Mitchell And James Taylor
Live In London 1970
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Released on: 2018-06-12
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John Peel's first ever radio appearance was on American radio station WRR, where he was introduced by Bill "Hoss" Carroll on Kat's Karavan in 1961. John Peel's real name was John Ravenscroft and the audio consists of the first 25 minutes of the show.
The famous lead track from the “Teenage Kicks” EP (Good Vibrations GOT-4) released in September, 1978.
Huge thanks to Chris Hall at the Perfumed Garden blog for providing such an awesome archive of the John Peel show:
http://theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/
The following info comes from:
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Teenage_Kicks
This song by the Belfast band the Undertones comes from the 'True Confessions' EP originally released in September 1978 by Belfast record shop owner Terri Hooley on his own Good Vibrations label in an initial pressing of 2,000 copies (Hooley claims it cost £100 to record, at Wizard Studios in Belfast). Ken Garner relates that it is unclear how JP received his copy: Feargal Sharkey claims he sent him one, but Hooley counter-claims that he left a copy at Radio 1 for the DJ after trying without success to sell it to some major labels (Garner, K., The Peel Sessions, p. 102).
What is beyond dispute is that John programmed all four tracks (Teenage Kicks/Smarter Than U/True Confessions/Emergency Cases) into his 12 September 1978 show, and played the lead track repeatedly over the next two weeks. This led to a record deal with Sire and the single was re-released on that label in October, going on to make number 31 in the UK charts.
The song was among the bonus tracks added to the first Undertones album when it was reissued with a new cover after a few months. Peel chose it as his contribution to a programme where various personalities read out their favourite poems, and he noted that Sheila had promised to play it at his funeral. As he additionally requested, the opening line, "Teenage dreams so hard to beat" (a misquotation of the actual lyrics "A teenage dream's so hard to beat") was inscribed on his tombstone.
In March 2018 Teenage Kicks was the winner of the "Debut Singles World Cup" competition on the Steve Lamacq show on BBC Radio 6 Music, beating Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in the 'final' (and beating Damned, Oasis and Sex Pistols along the way). Lamacq played the winning track with a recorded introduction by John Peel.
#TheUndertones #JohnPeel #Punk
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.
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.