Read (for instance):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/johnpeel/st...1336836,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/johnpeel/st...1336799,00.html

Read and listen:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/index.shtml?hp_lhn

When I was a student (actually an international exchange student) in England, I would sit in front of my radio receiver or lay on my bed almost every evening and listen to this man play what he called himself "A balance between things that you know people will like and things that you think people will like".
Then whan I came back home, thanks to the internet I would still listen to his shows.

In France we do have some radio "Legends" (like Bernard Lenoir on France Inter, just to name one) but discovering John Peel's shows was something so different from what we are used to hear here.

A great man who gave so much for music for some forty years.

I have never been so gutted about someone dieing that I didnt know. I can honestly say I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for him. He introduced me to music, which introduced me to people, which introduced me to mindsets.

The word "unreplaceable" will never be so appropriate

Listening to John Peel taught me that just because I liked electronic music it didn't mean I couldn't like anything else. My friends at the time were either telling me that I couldn't listen to rock/metal/anything else or that what I was listening to was crap and that I should listen to something else.

John Peel taught me I could have the best of both worlds.



I agree.