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Originally posted by jayeff
It gets downright scarey when so many people of your own generation are popping their clogs.
Apart from him having the same name as one of my godfathers, I shall remember John Peel because he and "whispering" Bob Harris (who fortunately is still alive asfar as I know) did more to promote non-Top20 rock than anyone else in the UK. Without them, there are artists, maybe even whole styles of music, to which we would never have been exposed.
BTW I watched the OGWT 30th Anniversary DVD the other night. If you haven't caught it, there is some excellent music on it and some great nostalgia.
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Bob Harris has been on BBC24 talking about him and still does a show on radio 4. I listened to it in the hospital the other night.
Add Tommy Vance to your list and the three of them pretty much broke every band I have ever liked or broke a band the influenced the bands I like to start playing music.