John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist.

References

• Most quotations by Peel cited above come from an extensive article written by him about his own life up until 1984. It was published in 1984 as part of an anthology and diary about pirate radio history called Pirate Radio: Then and Now by Stuart Henry and Mike von Joel. Blandford Press, Dorset, UK. ISBN 0-7137-1497-2
• Don Pierson's explanation about the part played by EMI in "needle time" while supplying records free of charge to the offshore stations such as Wonderful Radio London is covered in Mass Media Moments in the United Kingdom, the USSR and the USA, by Eric Gilder - "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu Press, Romania. 2003 - ISBN 973-651-596-6