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Dale Griffin
Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin (24 Oct. 1948 – 17 Jan. 2016) was an English drummer and founding member of Mott The Hoople. After the break-up of the band, he went on to produce around 2,000 BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 1980 to 1994 ... Read More >

Black
Black (born Colin Vearncombe; 26 May 1962 − 26 Jan. 2016) was an English singer-songwriter from Liverpool who enjoyed mainstream success in the late 1980s. In the early part of the decade, Black recorded two sessions for the John Peel show ... Read More >

Ed Stewart
Edward Stewart Mainwaring (23 April 1941 – 9 Jan. 2016), known as Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, was an English broadcaster. On pirate Radio London in 1967, he and Peel together previewed the Beatles LP 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' ... Read More >

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Paxman sets questions on the Festive Fifty, University Challenge, 2015.

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Record Collection: Details of the first 100 LPs of each letter of John Peel's record collection were released at The Space website in 2012. All material is now available at John Peel Archive and YouTube. Since Sept. 2014, a new Record Boxes series features selections from the collection by key music figures. Latest:

(Dec 2015): Simon Raymonde's Record Box

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On This Day

April 19 19 April 1973: Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Clifford T Ward, John Dummer's Ooblee Dooblee Band 19 April 1977: Heron, Supercharge 19 April 1979: records only 19 April 1980: Undertones, A Certain Ratio concert 19 April 1980 (BFBS) 19 April 1982: Associates, Nightingales 19 April 1983: Marine Girls, March Violets 19 April 1986 (BFBS) 19 April 1988: FSK, Heresy 19 April 1989: Walking Seeds 19 April 1990: Fatima Mansions 19 April 1992 (BFBS) 19 April 2000: DJ Food 19 April 2001: Zabrinski

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