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JOHN PEEL: HIS LIFE AND MUSICAL LEGACY

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. ....

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