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Having just heard of the tragic news of John Peel's death I am absolutley gutted. To explain for our transatlantic friends, he was a legendary DJ on BBC Radio 1.
Right now I'd like to just sit back and listen to everything John's ever done. (Although seeing as his carrer spanned 40yrs this would
take some time.)
If there was an obituary channel which specialised in quickly researching and playing archive footage of the recently deceased 24hrs a day I'd sign up. This would work for both radio & television.
I realise that there are biography channels and that main stream channels show tribute programmes but this would be more current than the biography channels and more in depth than the tribute programmes.
Thanks for the music John.
John Peel Is Dead
http://www.reuters....609590§ion=news
thoughts are with Sheila. [calum, Oct 26 2004]
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Sad news indeed. Growing up, John was like my radio Dad, and he was much cooler than DLT. |
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Hear hear. John's shows definitely helped shape my musical tastes. The world will be a quieter place without him. |
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Television and print media have obitutuary teams who rustle up obituaries on living people who are either (a) massively famous or (b) getting on a bit, so that they can plonk them in, with little revision, when the subject croaks. |
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The Obituary Channel would be hamstrung by topicality. Repeating programmes well after the subject has done his or her mortal coil shuffling renders the station utterly dissimilar to existing biography channels. |
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Very displeased to hear of JP's death. One of the best things about him, other than the fact that he played Dutch gabba and Half Man Half Biscuit's "The Slipknot Song" on Radio 1, is that his childrens' middle names are Anfield, Anfield, Dalglish and Shankly. |
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[That's very sad.
As a teenager I secretly stayed up late
to tape songs off John Peel's Music,
hitting "record" at just the right time,
then hastily rewinding the tape back
across something incomprehensible
and noisy, just in time to catch the
next.
Each John Peel's music night would
bring three, four songs that stayed, on
a tape that got played until the
imperfections of the recording became
part of the music, because you'd never
hear this stuff anywhere else on the
radio. The Fall, sure; but also
Mark Riley and the
Creepers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Go
Betweens,
The Cocteau Twins.
...] |
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This could be interesting,
but it would have to be raw. Edited, but
not written. It would just
satisfy the feelings of loss and craving
for denial and review of the recently
bereaved. The ghost channel. The
interplay of disconnected snippets of
people who had little in common other
than their date of death might make
something new. |
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[If there were a BBC Reenactment
Channel that just replayed all of those
shows, I think I'd listen to that more
than watch the obituary channel,
though.] |
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Agree with everything you say about JP (even thought I'm a Man U fan) but I don't understand your point about the channel. There are more than likely to be a couple if not more famous deaths a week (unfortunate but true) and there would be no problem filling airspace. Yes the programmes would get repeated alot in that week, but only for that week, when they are topical, unlike discovery of the biography channel where programmes are repeated ad nauseum. |
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The channel exists to provide information on the lives of the recently departed, ne. If the channel starts to provide information on the lives of the long or nearly long dead, it is tending towards identicality to existing biography channels, which deal almost exclusively with the dead (because the dead cannot be defamed). If the Obit Channel wishes to retain its USP in the market, it will have very limited use for its homegrown programme stock. This is not likely be very cost effective. I suppose an alternative source of income would be to sell programmes on the long dead to the Biog Channel. |
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A great man, taken too early from us.
And an interesting idea to boot, I'd certainly be watching/listening to it tonight.
P.S. I even used to louk forward to waking up early on a Saturday to listen to Home Truths.. |
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I feel deprived of his influence on my formative years. Think what I might have been. My condolences to those who knew and loved. That being said, I would find it too much to watch footage of the heroes of my youth after they are taken. Too sad. |
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Oh dear UB. The thought of a 'medium' doing bad impressions of Wayne & Cagney is truely stomach churning. |
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although I would be interested to find out if there was a heavenly recreation of the 'awwwww surely he was the son of God' episode. |
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//As a teenager I secretly stayed up late to tape songs off John Peel's Music...Each John Peel's music night would bring three, four songs that stayed, on a tape that got played until the imperfections of the recording became part of the music//
Cool. So it wasn't just me that did that then? |
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Ximmy is a foolish fool. (I'm so sorry y'all!) |
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How did this get on here? |
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