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Peel's stand-in on his BBC Radio 1 slot, Rob da Bank, also played the song at the start of the final show before Peel's funeral. [citation needed] The song mentions two England cricketers in its lyrics – "And it could be Geoff and it could be John" refers to Geoffrey Boycott and John Snow. The song is dedicated to both of them. [4] [5]
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.
Honea Path's churches, who were subsidized by the mill owners, refused to allow a funeral for the slain workers to be held on their grounds. [3] [14] Instead, on September 9 the UTW organized a funeral on an open field outside town. Perhaps 10,000 people attended, addressed by George L. Googe from the AFL and John Peel from the UTW. [6] [21]
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Lady Adelaide "Delia" Margaret Peel DCVO (née Spencer; 26 June 1889 – 16 January 1981) was an English courtier and member of the Spencer family. [ 1 ] She was born in London, the eldest child of the 6th Earl Spencer and his wife, Hon. Margaret Baring, daughter of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke .
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William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel (7 January 1867 – 28 September 1937), styled 2nd Viscount Peel from 1912 to 1929, was a British politician who was a local councillor, a Member of Parliament and a member of the House of Lords. After an early career as a barrister and a journalist, he entered first local and then national politics.
When he appeared on John Peel's This Is Your Life, Peel said: "Fluff is the greatest out-and-out disc jockey of them all". After Freeman's death Robin Gibb wrote a tribute, "Alan Freeman Days". [13] Recorded in August 2007, the song was included on Gibb's first posthumous album 50 St. Catherine's Drive in 2014.