Peel Headstone

ken garner ken_garner@...
Tue Feb 19 01:45:01 CET 2008


sorry about that - if you really want to read it, search the 
telegraph site's 'comment' section by typing 'Michael Henderson' and 
it should pop up. The most annoying thing about it is there is a tiny 
nugget of truth in it, but expressed totally insensitively, 
uncharitably and with no understanding: in one sense, yes, Peel did 
indeed never grow up - but that was what made him so great and 
empathetic a broadcaster. Over the years I saw him do it time and 
time again: when bands came up to him at gigs, strangers in the 
street, people in cafes, parties - fuelled I believe by his own 
introspective and solitary teenage years, re-charged up by his later 
family happiness with Sheila, he just somehow intuitively knew what 
young people needed to get them going, laugh and feel better, more 
confident, about themselves.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" <thebarguest@...> wrote:
>
> Oh God save me from broken links .......
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > This is the offending column, by Michael Henderson, in Saturday's 
> > edition:
> > 
> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?
> > xml=/opinion/2008/02/16/do1603.xml
> > 
> > I was tempted to write but what's the point
> > 
> > k
> > 
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "grang354" <colin_ellis@> wrote:
> > >
> > > And here's a piece from the Torygraph, which provoked a 
response 
> > from a 
> > > fogeyish leader writer:
> > > 
> > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
> > > xml=/news/2008/02/13/npeel113.xml
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Brewer" <lists@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 12, 2008 3:18 PM, Julian Porter <spiggytopes55@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7240623.stm
> > > > 
> > > > There's a picture here:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2223211584/
> > > > 
> > > > Of *course* someone's left a demo for him.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Rob Brewer rob@ http://www.rbrwr.org
> > > > "The [central limit theorem] would have been personified by 
the 
> > Greeks
> > > > and deified, if they had known of it." -- Francis Galton
> > > >
> > >
> >
>






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