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KharBevNor:
Despite his brilliance, it's not necessary to have heard him. Just read a few clippings from his wikipedia article:
--- Quote ---John Peel brought sixties culture to a generation of young Londoners through his Perfumed Garden on Wonderful Radio London, playing classic blues and folk music as he gently introduced groundbreaking music of Tyrannosaurus Rex and Captain Beefheart (for whom he acted as chauffeur during his 1969 UK tour), esoteric performers like Ron Geesin and John Fahey, and broke new British bands like Family and Fairport Convention. His show influenced the rise of most subsequent styles of rock music.
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Peel was the first to play the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen", in December 1976, having played "Anarchy in the UK", which was banned from the BBC's daytime playlist, a month earlier. In 1976 he was also the first to play Bob Dylan's Desire in the UK, despite Capital Radio having exclusive permission from CBS to be the first to do so. Peel got hold of a copy of the record and, to beat Capital, played it in full, separated by a reggae track while he changed the record over. Peel was to show this disregard for record company rules again when in 2003 he played three tracks from The White Stripes album Elephant before its official release date, resulting in him being threatened by lawyers for the record company V2.
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Many bands and artists of many different musical styles from different decades credit Peel as a major boost to their careers, the list includes T-Rex, David Bowie, The Faces, Bolt Thrower, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Napalm Death, The Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Cure, Joy Division, Six By Seven, Def Leppard, Pulp, Orbital, The Smiths, FSK and The White Stripes. Peel's reputation as the most important DJ breaking unsigned acts into the mainstream was such that in 1983 unsigned artist Billy Bragg drove to the Radio 1 studios with a mushroom biryani and a copy of his record after hearing Peel mention that he was hungry, the subsequent airplay launching his career.
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Kai:
BEST. RADIO. HOST. EVER.
ALoveSupreme:
I listen to local conservative talk radio because it's hilarious. 890AM hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and other local blowhards. It's pretty entertaining, as I said. Also, there's, like, 590 or something. It's a newer station that doesn't have any big names but they're all reaallllllyyy aggressive about their conservatism, which is sometimes even better.
Kai:
Oneo f the guys on 890, Somethign Savage, is a prick. It's almost hilarious how crazily militaristic and totally secretly racist he is.
Storm Rider:
His name is Michael Savage, and he is a gigantic prick. Like, my friend is a lifelong Republican, he got Savage's book for Christmas from one of his right-wing relatives, and even he agreed he's a prick.
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