Started his broadcasting career at Radio London....cheerfully ignoring his years in the States.

Mind you, the Net is littered with erroneous crap about John. Alexander Laurence's interview with the Delgados that I used for their page on the Wiki contains a couple of howlers that I can't believe nobody spotted, to wit:

The Delgado's first album Domestiques (1996) immediately caught the attention of the late John Peel. (He was playing them more than a year before that.)

They even played a show at John Peel's house for his 50th birthday party. (Sheila's, actually. John was already 59 at the time.)

Anybody else seen comparable nonsense to share with us?

Steve (TK)




---In peel@yahoogroups.com, <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Actually, having read the article properly now, the most amusing bit is right down at the bottom:
 
"John Peel started his broadcasting career at pirate station Radio London before joining BBC Radio 1 for its 1967 launch.
He was famous for championing new talent on his late-night music programme, including Pink Floyd and White Stripes."
 
 
Pink  Floyd & White Stripes?? Who the hell do they get to write this stuff?? An unpaid intern, presumably.
 
 
From: "so_it_goes_2512@..." <so_it_goes_2512@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 20:03
Subject: [peel] RE: Charlotte Fucking Church
 
Sorry, what isn't? Sounds to me like a physical impossibility, as John would have said......

Steve (TK) 
---In peel@yahoogroups.com, <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Tell me it isn't so.