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I hope they play the clip of him playing the ukelele with the faces. That was class.

I liked him on Room 101; it reflected what a genuinely nice bloke he was - I hope it`s repeated. I heard that more bands owe their careers to him than any other individual and his general impact on music was huge. He truly lived life to the full and was lucky enough to see Oswald indicted and was there when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.

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see Oswald indicted and was there when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.


Apparently he`s on the archive footage and everything. Was DJing in Dallas.

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Very sad news indeed and a great loss to the smaller bands who he helped bring to the ears of the listeners.
I would not be able to count how many new and up and coming bands whose music he would showcase on the radio but that is his legacy to the music world.

God bless you JP

Choagy :(

noone can replace him .. a true great

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Apparently he`s on the archive footage He is in the background of the footage of Oswald`s shooting - can`t remember if he had a beard then or not. John Peel had many claims to fame but that one is tough to beat!

Molara: You were based in Dallas in 1963. I have heard that you were in the room when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald?

John Peel: No, I wasn`t but I was in a room about 3 days prior to that with them both. They had a late night press conference when they first arrested Lee Harvey Oswald. I was with my mate Bob and we were cruising round trying unsuccessfully to chat up women in drive in restaurants. We thought we`d round off the night by checking out the police headquarters - when we found out what was happening I told the policeman in charge that I was a reporter for The Liverpool Echo and Bob was my photographer and they just let us in. My so-called photographer didn`t have a camera and I didn`t have a piece of paper or a pen. Granada did a documentary in which they showed footage from that night to prove that Ruby had been at the press conference - they panned across the room and there was me and Bob.
I did call the Liverpool Echo at one stage and they did one of those classic local paper things - "Heswall Man in Dallas - John Ravenscroft, son of noted Liverpool cotton broker Robert "Bob" Ravenscroft. . ." nothing at all about what was happening in Dallas.

www.molara.co.uk/7696.html

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I stand corrected!

Sad indeed...

I owe him so much for bringing so many great bands to my attention that I would have otherwise missed. I loved his taste in music and the way he would play what he liked, not what was popular or what everyone else was playing and the way he would say at the end of a track in his deadpan style `that was Belgian catflat explosion, and its quite good...` brilliant...

Thanks John

RIP

Been so busy today I`ve only just found out!! What an absolute shock!!! I am utterly gobsmacked and I just can`t take it in yet. Where would music have gone in the 70`s without this guys influence? I`m gonna have to sit down and watch the news I think. :( :(