Just a short one today as I've been poorly for over a week now and my glittering repartee system is weakened. I have whiled away the hours in my sickbed reading John Peel's "The Olivetti Chronicles", the wit and wisdom of the late, great broadcaster John Peel. I only read his autobiography "Margrave of the Marshes" recently and was overwhelmed by a warm fuzzy feeling. WHAT A NOICE GOY !!!!! John Peel must truly be remembered as the Queen Mother of broadcasting. He never put a foot wrong.
Being a bit too posh for punk, and also in the habit of going to bed before midnight, I never became a regular listener of his music programme when I should have, but it was in the 90's that I discovered the man through Home Truths. Through his lugubrious delivery, his genuine niceness shone through. And he was funny, God was he funny.
Only through reading these two books have I realized that he was also the coolest man who ever walked this earth, and although I feel I shall never really take The Fall to my heart, I see where he was coming from in the rock and roll department. It was all about teenage kicks. As his producer John Walters said, he had "young ears". The gap created by his untimely death in October 2004 has never been filled. The mere existence of Simon Cowell is an insult to his memory.
And so, here is something that John Ravenscroft, OBE, 1939-2004, would approve of.
Being a bit too posh for punk, and also in the habit of going to bed before midnight, I never became a regular listener of his music programme when I should have, but it was in the 90's that I discovered the man through Home Truths. Through his lugubrious delivery, his genuine niceness shone through. And he was funny, God was he funny.
Only through reading these two books have I realized that he was also the coolest man who ever walked this earth, and although I feel I shall never really take The Fall to my heart, I see where he was coming from in the rock and roll department. It was all about teenage kicks. As his producer John Walters said, he had "young ears". The gap created by his untimely death in October 2004 has never been filled. The mere existence of Simon Cowell is an insult to his memory.
And so, here is something that John Ravenscroft, OBE, 1939-2004, would approve of.
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