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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.
The original Sounds of the Seventies was a Radio 1 programme broadcast on weekdays, initially 18:00–19:00, subsequently 22:00–00:00, on during the early 1970s. Among the DJs were Mike Harding, Alan Black, Pete Drummond, Annie Nightingale, John Peel (who alone had two shows per week), and Bob Harris (who started presenting the show on 19 August 1970 by playing Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl"). [1]
This is a list of artists (bands and individual musicians) who recorded at least one session for John Peel and his show on BBC Radio 1 from 1967 to his death in 2004. [1] The first session was recorded by Tomorrow on 21 September 1967, and the last by Skimmer on 21 October 2004.
The BBC presenter, Bob Harris, said the show was unlike any other in its format. [1] "Broadcasting ‘…in my stoned solitude from the middle of the North Sea …' John Peel suddenly arrived in my life with a mixture of records, poetry, letters and conversation. The format was diverse, the content an absolute revelation.
Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC sound studios, of which five are in regular use, in Delaware Road, Maida Vale, west London. It has been used to record thousands of classical music , popular music and drama sessions for BBC Radio 1 , BBC Radio 2 , BBC Radio 3 , BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 6 Music from 1946 to the present.
It was hosted variously by Tommy Vance, Pete Drummond and, most notably, John Peel, who, with the help of sympathetic producers Bernie Andrews and John Walters, turned it into an award-winning show, while retaining the emphasis on new music. In 1971, the programme merged with the Sounds of the Seventies strand, broadcast on FM. It was still ...
The Peel Sessions 1979–1981 is a compilation album collecting the first four sessions recorded by the English post-punk band Killing Joke for the legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, plus a session recorded for his colleague Richard Skinner's programme. The sessions had been previously available as bootlegs, but are presented here in pristine ...
"Party of the First Part" (5:35) – broadcast 12 April 1982 by John Peel "Departure" (4:53) – broadcast 12 April 1982 by John Peel "The Three Shadows Part II" (2:58) – broadcast 12 April 1982 by John Peel "Silent Hedges" (3:07) – broadcast 1 July 1982 by David Jensen "Swing the Heartache" (5:12) – broadcast 1 July 1982 by David Jensen