So revered in the UK that he made the top 50 in a BBC poll of ‘Greatest Britons of all time,’ John Peel (1939-2004) shaped popular culture in ways that Americans may never know or understand. As a pirate radio deejay, a band manager, promoter and cheerleader, print journalist, BBC radio presenter, arranger of recording sessions, record label owner and all-around presence, Peel held the door for the progressive and idiosyncratic to enter rock & roll, be it psychedelia, garage rock, punk, prog rock, folk-rock, industrial, and post-rock. Richie Unterberger dug deep into the archives and talked to people who knew him to produce this captivating portrait of John Peel.
Far from the Madding Crowd, which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life, has been slapped with a content warning by the University of Warwick.
An investigation has revealed at least ten institutions - including three from the elite Russell Group - have either withdrawn books or made them optional in case they offend undergraduates.
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