What can I say about the man, except to echo what's already been said?
So many memories of his Radio 1 show, like when I was working as a night cleaner in a food-packing factory listening to peelie on a radio that I had to smuggle in underneath my overalls. The best breakfast show I've ever heard. Or listening to his show with my housemates and writing the amusing quotes on our 'Wall of Peel'.
Night after night he brought the nation the most incredible mix of music ever broadcast. I remember the first time I listened to the show in 1997, hearing Mogwai in session, just as they were starting to take off. My days of blinkeredly listening to awful grunge and heavy metal were over, and a whole vista of sounds opened up to me. Music became an obsession, and now there's barely a waking moment that I'm not listening to music in some way.
Lazy Saturday mornings, 'Home Truths' on in the background whilst doing the crossword. An incredible social documentary lasting over years, and presented with so much warmth and hoesty as to feel like a weekly family update from a well-loved uncle.
Cheers Mr Peel. You genuinely made the world a better place.
And can I have some f the records you left behind please?
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