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 Posted - 10/26/2004 : 07:23:38
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Some sad news for fans of the Peel Sessions
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/26/john.peel.dead.reut/index.html
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) -- Veteran British disc jockey and broadcaster John Peel has died in Peru while on holiday in the ancient Inca city of Cuzco, his employer the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British embassy said on Tuesday.
"He passed away. We don't have any details. We received a phone call at 4 a.m. from his brother to inform us," said Jonathan Clare, an embassy official in Lima.
The BBC in London said Peel was on a working holiday in Cuzco with his wife, Sheila. There was no other comment from the BBC.
Peel, born in 1939, was one of Britain's original pirate radio disc jockeys in the 1960s, broadcasting from ships anchored just outside British waters that won huge followings. Peel was his assumed "pirate" name.
In the late 1970s he championed punk rock to the consternation of many of his radio contemporaries who were still playing rock super groups -- and were convinced the new music fad would never had any real impact.
Peel -- an authority on independent music -- was honored as an Order of the British Empire. |
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John Peel dies
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