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Hello and Welcome to issue #60 of the Hit Sheet. It’s really very easy to find the new U2 online. The untimely and tragic passing of And in addition to it being posted on the usual peer- devastated the industry last month. We’ve compiled to-peer sites, it’s available via BitTorrent – a super- a few comments on pages eight and nine, which I fast, file sharing product which has been reported as hope reflect just how venerated this broadcasting 31 The Birches, , N21 1NJ devouring more than a third of the internet’s legend was. Good luck to Rob Da Bank in filling the bandwidth. largest boots in broadcasting – it goes without Tel. +44 (0)20 8360 4088 Fax: +44 (0)20 8360 4088 saying that Peely’s an impossible act to follow. BitTorrent has grown enormously, under the radar of Email. [email protected] [email protected] the RIAA and Hollywood’s copyright cops, and it Until next time, now accounts for more traffic than all other file Website. www.hitsheet.co.uk sharing sites combined. The difference with GREG PARMLEY Publisher – Paul Kramer BitTorrent is that it downloads fragments of the file [email protected] from a host of different computers at once - pieces 07932 034750 that are then stitched back together. By utilising Editor – Greg Parmley available bandwidth in this way, it’s an extremely [email protected] 07740 868 956 efficient system for delivering enormous files. And, identifying just who’s sharing the files becomes Through The Grapevine Contributors – Bob Lefsetz, even harder. Congrats to Korda and Max on their new Magazine Design – Dennis Adelman job titles, let’s hope 2005 sees a Magazine Layout – James Murdoch On one site alone, next to How To Dismantle An turnaround for the fortunes of the Warners Atom Bomb, I found the new Destiny’s Child, group. Website Design and Co-ordinator – Eminem and Kylie sitting alongside movies Dave Nattriss – Who is rumoured to be leaving their highly influential [email protected] such as Fahrenheit 9/11, The Terminal and Resident Evil 2. On another site, entire discographies of U2, and sought after post next spring? Administrator – Naomi Stickler Dire Straits, Foo Fighters, Metallica, REM, Sting and [email protected] Guns N’ Roses were available at the click of a button. Which BMG publishing staff member is walking CD Mastering - Clive Deacon around like a lovesick puppy? And who is the cause 07974 316 313 Napster might have been the industry’s first online assailant, but in the online war, BitTorrent could fast of this affliction? Hit Sheet Idents – Gordon become its nemesis. Loncaster Who at SonyBMG has been put "on notice"?

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RADIO TV Continued The Box Chart – TMF UK’S MOST PLAYED PRE-RELEASE: 1. Eric Prydz Call On Me Lemar If There’s Any Justice 2. Jo Jo Leave 4-10 November UK’S MOST PLAYED: 3. Christina Aguilera Car Wash TW LW ARTIST TITLE Destiny’s Child Lose My Breath 4. Joss Stone You Had Me 5. Nothing Hurts Like Love 1 N Nadia A Little Bit Of Action RADIO ONE MTV2 2 N Destiny's Child Lose My Breath 1. Franz Ferdinand This Fire 3 10 Kylie I Believe In You Maroon 5 Sunday Morning 2. Kings Of Leon The Bucket 2. Babyshambles Killamangiro 4 3 Westlife Fly Me To The Moon JO WHILEY 4. Graham Coxon Freaking Out 5 9 3rd Wish Obsesión Eminem Encore (album) 4. Green Day American Idiot 6 1 Eye Opener Hungry Eyes COLIN & EDITH 7 4 Girls Aloud I'll Stand By You Stumble and Fall MTV Base 1. Usher ft. Alicia Keys My Boo 8 2 Eric Prydz Call On Me SPOONY 2. Akon ft. Styles P Locked Up 9 6 Lethal B Forward 3. Ja Rule ft. Ashanti Wonderful JoJo Baby It's You 4. Brandy Afrodisiac 10 11 Gwen Stefani What You Waiting For? RADIO TWO 5. Destiny’s Child Lose My Breath 11 25 Brian McFadden Irish Son 12 7 RECORD OF THE WEEK: MTV Dance Eminem Just Lose It Kylie I Believe In You 1. Eric Prydz Call On Me 13 19 Welcome To My Truth 2. Michael Gray The Weekend 14 8 ALBUM OF THE WEEK: 3. Deep Dish Flashdance Blue Curtain Falls Peachtree Road 4. Armand Van Helden My My My 15 18 Dizzee Rascal Dream 5. Uniting Nations Out Of Time 16 17 Michael Gray The Weekend TV MTV Hits 17 37 Keane This Is The Last Time VH1 1. Avril Lavigne Nobody’s Home 1. Robbie Williams Misunderstood 18 21 Delta Goodrem Out Of The Blue 2. Scissor Sisters Mary 1. Gwen Stefani What You Waiting For? 19 42 Nelly and Christina Aguilera Tilt Ya Head Back 1. Green Day American Idiot 3. Daniel Bedingfield Nothing Hurts Like Love 20 65 4. Maroon 5 She Will Be Loved 4. Maroon 5 She Will Be Loved Natasha Bedingfield Unwritten 5. Natasha Bedingfield These Words 5. 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If There’s Any Justice Lemar Sony UK

Smooth, sultry and syrupy, Lemar’s new single is a classic soul track and he, a soul singer of the highest order. The track Released: 15 November is A-listed at Radio 1, Radio 2, Kiss, Capital, London 94.9 and Product Manager: Ted Cockle 020 7911 8458 Choice FM, and a smorgasbord of regional stations are also Press: Joanna Burns championing this first single release from new album, Time 020 7911 8467 To Grow (released 29 November). Quite rightly, the track is TV: Nicola Carson being played everywhere! With forthcoming live 020 7911 8460 appearances on TOTP Saturday, Popworld and GMTV as well Radio: Joe Bennett 020 7911 8469 as an invite to sing on the Band Aid Xmas single, the next [email protected] few weeks are going to be a busy time for this new soul Management: Richard Griffiths warrior. Lemar’s No. 2 single Dance (With U) was produced Modest! Management by Brian Rawling, who has been a long time supporter and 020 7384 6412 fan. Brian is back on production duties again, hoping to go [email protected] Live: Mark Cowan one step better this time, although there is stiff competition Concorde for the prestigious No. 1 spot from Girls Aloud’s Children in 020 7602 8822 Need track. We’d also like to congratulate Spurs supporter www.Lemar-Online.com Lemar for getting the most famous address in N17 – White Hart Lane – into the lyric of forthcoming single What If (track four on the album).

Teardrops The 411 Sony UK

Following the success of their first two singles, Carolyn, Released: 15 November Suzie, Tisha and Tanya are looking for their next top ten hit. Product Manager: Ted Cockle Teardrops is the latest single to be taken from the quartet’s 020 7911 8458 Press: Joanna Burns debut album, Between The Sheets, which is released on 22 020 7911 8467 November. The track has already been added to the Choice TV: Nicola Carson FM A-list, Radio 1 and Capital B-list, and is also B-listed on 020 7911 8460 TMF and C-listed on MTV Hits and MTV Base. The girls are Radio: Joe Bennett booked for a bundle of forthcoming TV appearances 020 7911 8469 [email protected] including TOTP Saturday and the Smash Hits Poll Winners’ Management: Howard Berman/ Party. Teardrops was produced by Fitzgerald Scott (Lemar, Susie Charrington Keith Sweat, Another Level) and revolves around the Streetside Records atmospheric loop from Lalo Schifrin's classic More Mission 020 8741 9365 Impossible soundtrack, which was also used by Portishead in [email protected] [email protected] their 1994 hit Sour Times. Cruelly overlooked for a MOBO, Live: Solomon Parker we’re sure they’ll be nominated for Best New Group at the Concorde Brits. Live wise, the girls perform at the GWR Xmas show in 020 7602 8822 Nottingham on 5 December and at Guildford University on 8 www.The411.co.uk December, and who wouldn’t want to find them in their Christmas stocking?

Released: 29 November The Streets 679/Locked On Product Manager: Matt Thomas Could Well Be In 020 7761 6055 [email protected] The tricky fourth single for the immensely talented Mike Press: Ruth Drake Skinner and his citywise bunch of troubadours, The Streets. Sainted PR Following the three previous singles (Fit But You Know It – No. 020 8962 5700 3, Dry Your Eyes – No. 1, and Blinded By The Light - No. 10) [email protected] was always going to be a tough gig but Could Well Be In is Radio: Jane Arthy 020 7760 6000 undoubtedly up to the task. The single is a precursor to Dry [email protected] Your Eyes; a positive beginning to the eventual break-up. TV: Laura Ohnona Typically grounded, Skinner manages to perfectly vocalise the 020 7760 6000 fears, worries and hopes of a first date, extracting something [email protected] immensely beautiful from the ordinary everyday. Skinner’s Management: Tim Vigon Coalition second platinum-selling, concept album, A Grand Don’t Come 020 8987 0123 For Free, has so far shipped 900,000 copies and shows no Live: Pete Elliott signs of slowing. But as well as single-handedly regenerating Primary Talent the UK urban scene, Skinner is also busy working on his new 020 7833 8998 label, The Beats, with first signing The Mitchell Brothers who www.The-Streets.co.uk have already provided guest vocals on some of his own tracks.

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I Believe In You Kylie Parlophone

Released: 6 December With tickets for her 2005 arena tour selling faster than cheap Product Manager: Rob Owen cold beers at an Aussie BBQ, the release of Kylie’s greatest 020 7605 5165 hits album is timed perfectly. The double CD, Ultimate Kylie, is Press: Murray Chalmers released on 22 November, and features all 31 of her UK 020 7605 5306 singles plus two new tunes. One of the extra tracks is I Believe Radio: Kevin McCabe 020 7605 5288 In You, which was written and recorded with Jake Shears and TV: Helena McGeough Babydaddy from the Scissor Sisters. Having transfused a 020 7605 5415 healthy dose of Scissor Sisters’ camp into the single, the [email protected] result is closer to Donna Summer than the Kylie of recent hits Management: Terry Blamey Chocolate and Red Blooded Woman. The tune has already Terry Blamey Management 020 7371 7627 been Record Of The Week on ’ Radio 1 show as well www.Kylie.com as JK and Joel’s Weekend Anthem. Having clocked up 31 international top 40 hits, 7 UK No. 1s and 25 top 10 singles, it’s not just a jaw-droppingly perfect rear end that Kylie has to boast about. We love I Believe In You and think it’s a perfect addition to her Best Of compilation.

Thinking Of You Paul Weller V2 Released: 15 November There are few people of voting age who are unfamiliar with Product Manager: Claire Moon 020 7471 3101 ’s disco smash Thinking Of You which was Press: Polly Birkbeck originally penned by Nile Rogers and of 020 7471 3052 fellow Atlantic labelmates Chic. The single reached No. 11 in Radio/TV: Neil Ashby/ May 1984, and then No. 17 in June 1993, and now the Chris Young Modfather is taking aim at the charts with it. The new version 020 7471 3038/3096 [email protected] of Thinking About You is a stripped back affair: disco beats are Management: John Weller replaced with simple string arrangements and percussion, Solid Bond Production while acoustic guitar becomes the guiding force. It’s a charity 01483 211 146 release, and 50p from every single sold goes to Children In Live: Martin Hopewell Need. The single is taken from Weller’s recent top three Primary Talent 020 7833 8998 covers album, Studio 150, which was recorded in Amsterdam, [email protected] produced by himself and Jan ‘Stan’ Kybert, and features the www.PaulWeller.com playing of and Steve Craddock. Weller cancelled his 13-date UK tour this month due to a throat infection, but dates, including a Hammersmith Apollo show, are being rescheduled for December.

I’ll Stand By You Girls Aloud Polydor Big, busty and bootiful. And no, we’re not just talking about Nadine, Cheryl, Sarah, Kimberley or Nicola. I’ll Stand By You Released: 15 November is a powerful reworking of ’ classic which Product Manager: Poppy Stanton originally shot to No. 10 in April 1994. The high-energy ballad Press: Sundraj Sreenivasan has been picked as the theme song to this year’s BBC Children Radio: Arlene Moon In Need as the event celebrates its 25th anniversary. The song TV: Rachel Cook 020 8910 4800 features on the girls’ second album, What Will The [email protected] Neighbours Say?, which is released on 29 November. Girls Live: Shaz Qureshi Aloud have now clocked up eight top three singles, with their Concorde International last two efforts, The Show and Love Machine, both reaching 020 7602 8822 No. 2. Alongside the charity element to the single, there’s an [email protected] www.GirlsAloud.com extensive plot around the release, which this weekend alone (13-14 November) sees the girls appear on TOTP Saturday, Ministry Of Mayhem, Popworld and Pop City Live. I’ll Stand By You looks poised to give them their second No. 1. The cheeky quintet appear live at the Smash Hits Poll Winners’ Party at Wembley Arena on 21 November and at the Royal Variety Performance on 14 December at the London Coliseum.

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Released: 6 December Product Manager: Julian Goodkind 020 7284 1955 Do The Can Can The Skandi Girls Intelligent [email protected] Press: Stuart Bell This track is guaranteed to split opinion as wide as the US election. But, Outside Organisation it’s approaching Christmas, a time for forgiveness, and besides, all those 07815 061 788 office parties are crying out for this year’s yuletide novelty romp. National Radio: Charlie Lycett Lucid PR Following on that fine tradition of party hits by the likes of Bob The 07970 947 012 Builder, The Cheeky Girls, and Mr Blobby, this Scandinavian foursome Regional Radio: Jo Hart are so confident, they’re taking on Band Aid for the Xmas No. 1. Daniel Hart Media Glatman spotted the girls dancing in Café de Paris last summer and 07968 499 037 TV: Michelle Denton they’ve since appeared on stage and in videos with Blue. Guy Holmes 07812 167 973 used Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy as the launch pad for Gut, and Management: Stefan Chandler Glatman intends to do the same with Intelligent, signing “cooler” acts Sky Rocket Management later on. Annoyingly catchy, Jessica (Finnish), Helena (Swiss), Hege and 07785 352 318 [email protected] Lene (both Norwegian) caused mayhem in London while shooting the Live: Sol Parker video, and appear on BBC’s Children in Need on 19 November. And, did 020 7602 8822 you know that the Can Can was originally developed as a ballroom dance [email protected] for couples around 1830, only evolving into the choreographed, www.SkandiGirls.com underwear-flashing spectacle around the turn of the century?

Deirdre’s Song 79Cortinaz unsigned On the strength of their debut single alone, 79Cortinaz went top 20 in Ireland, landed TV spots, interviews, live sessions and caused an altogether huge furore not seen over a new Irish act in ages. The four- Released: Not scheduled Contact: John Higginson piece formed in a garage in Carlow at the end of 2003, bringing together +353 87 7473574 the cream of the local live scene, including vocalist Gala Hutton, who [email protected] fronted a Hot Press ‘Band Of The Year’ with Azure Days. Less than a year www.79Cortinaz.com later, Deirdre’s Song charted at No. 18 when it was released in September, and resulted in significant exposure on national station 2FM and Beat FM. Mixing West Coast vibes with grounded Irish working class sentiment, the band has rightfully been compared to a cross between The Pixies and The Thrills. The lads have been gigging all over Ireland, developing an impressive fan base, but despite such obvious talent, they are unsigned in the UK. Get out yer chequebooks!

Obsesión Aventura Hit Mania Released: 29 November Product Manager: Steven Lo Presti Here in the UK, we’re one of the last territories to fall under the spell of 020 7499 7451 [email protected] Aventura’s mixture of Bachata, hip hop and R&B. Bachata is a danceable Press: Stephen Emms Latin American guitar music, similar to the Lambada, and it’s already Emms Publicity taken Europe by storm. Obsesión has sold over 1.5 million singles on the 020 7226 0990 continent, and hit the top spot in Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, [email protected] Holland, Switzerland and Italy (where it was No. 1 for a record-breaking Radio/TV: Nino Severino/ Matt Connolly 16 weeks!). The track was self-penned and produced by Aventura: four Fleming Connolly New York musicians barely in their 20s but who have already produced Lander/Music House four albums and a DVD. Their second release, We Broke The Rules, 020 8896 8200 which features Obsesión, has sold 300,000 copies in the US and just www.AventuraWorldwide.com under 1 million in Europe. There are other versions of the track about, but this tune is the original, the track with the success story, and it’s the definitive. Expect this to blow up just in time for the party season.

Released: 6 December Falling Like Stars Bird Ice Cream Contact: Anna Hildur 07801 161 718 There’s ever-increasing interest building around this über-talented singer 01689 855 895 from London. Janie Price, aka Bird, follows the release of her [email protected] Press: Andy Prevezer critically acclaimed debut album, The Insides, with a double A-side, 020 7761 6090 Falling Like Stars and the festive Christmas Song. Multi-instrumentalist 07774 400 583 Janie is equal parts English and Irish, and cut her teeth as a backing National Radio: Woolfy musician working with everyone from Vanessa Mae to punk bands. The Hungry Media standout track from The Insides, we were raving about Falling Like Stars 07802 617 002 Regional Radio: Jo Hart long before hearing that it was being released as a single. Sparse, Hart Media acoustic and natural, Falling… showcases Janie’s hauntingly warm, 07968 499 037 husky vocal talent which dominates the track. She recently recorded a TV: Jenni Page live session for 6Music and has also supported Aqualung and Polly Chilli PR Paulusma in the UK, and visited Iceland and Spain for several shows. The [email protected] www.BirdWebsite.net album and single are released on Janie’s own label, distributed through Pinnacle. Coming up, Bird performs at The Bedford in Balham on 17 November. It’s definitely not a show to miss. Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet RECORDSOFTHEWEEK 7

Misunderstanding The Electric Soft Parade unsigned Our support for ESP goes back a long way. The front cover stars from our very first issue are back, with a whole album of great tunes. Misunderstanding shows Alex and Tom White at their best; a laid back Released: Not Scheduled vocal with a melody that’s so radio friendly it hurts. If it doesn’t feature in Contact: Tony Richardson Skye Management the next series of ’s Teachers then I’ll eat my hat. Alex (22) and 07786 937 623 Tom (20) are still young enough to have a long successful career ahead of [email protected] them, having learnt important lessons from their experiences at both db www.ElectricSoftParade.com and BMG. There can’t be many 20/22 year olds looking for their third deal, but it’ll be third time lucky as far as we’re concerned. We saw them recently on a short sell out tour and are convinced that they still have what it takes. With the right label and nurturing, they’re more than capable of producing brilliant music, miles ahead of their contemporaries. With time on their side there is no reason why the White boys can’t return to the cutting edge top of the indie pop tree.

Silent Night Aled Jones & Hayley Westenra UCJ

Released: 22 November Had Aled Jones been a rock singer, who by the age of 15 had clocked up Product Manager: Donna Cass platinum sales and No. 1 hits in 10 countries, rehab would have 020 8910 3112 undoubtedly followed. Instead, while he waited years for his voice to [email protected] mature, he became a county level tennis player instead! Aled is now the Press: Linda Valentine 020 8910 3125 UK’s best known classical singer, through a mixture of enviable talent, Radio/TV: Becky Ram history and presenting both Songs Of Praise and his Sunday morning 020 8910 3126 show on Classic FM. He’s even proved his rhythm by becoming the star [email protected] of Strictly Come Dancing! Silent Night is released at the same time as Management: Peter Price new long-player The Christmas Album, which looks set to effortlessly 020 7535 5181 [email protected] trump his last two UCJ albums that both went gold, selling over 350,000 www.AledJones.co.uk copies. This new version of Franz Gruber’s 19th Century classic sees Aled duet with the marvellous Hayley Westenra, who has a solo version of the same track on her own album. And, despite his TV commitments, Aled is still finding time for his current 30-date UK tour which rolls into the London Palladium on 20 December.

Teenage Kicks The Undertones Sanctuary 26 years after this track reached the giddy heights of No. 31 in the UK charts, it has received more airplay than ever due to the tragic and untimely passing of John Peel. We are still reeling since the shocking news of John’s demise, and saddened by the realisation that the man who played such a huge part in our lives has gone forever. Released: Not scheduled My personal memories are mainly from 1977 to 1981, when the likes of Contact: Philip Seidl Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash, Misty In Roots, TRB, Linton Kwesi Johnson, 020 7602 6351 Patrik Fitzgerald, The Ruts, John Cooper Clarke and, most famously, The [email protected] Undertones, all got an airing on John’s show and helped form my love of music, convincing me that a career in it would beat working for a living! As I grew older I was more likely to listen to Home Truths on Radio 4 than I was to listen to the evening show, but if I was driving home from a gig I’d always tune in to hear the latest thrash punk folk indie guitar band played at the wrong speed now and again. We would hope that the government would take the step of making the last Monday in October a National holiday in memory of John Peel. How about a National Music Day bank holiday? A day of music related events up and down the British Isles would be a great way of remembering John Peel and all that he did to shape the music scene of the UK. When Paul Gambaccini asked those present at the MITS awards to stand up if they had in any way been affected by John Peel, it was heartening to see more than half of those in attendance rise to their feet and applaud. The Radio 1 feature in the current issue of Q has the following quote from John: "People say I’m a legend, but legends are all dead". John Peel. You are now a legend. Thank you for the music. You will never be replaced. PK Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet Hit Sheet JOHNJOHNPPEEEELL 8

Legendary broadcaster and radio me to this manic obsession. Steve McCormick – BBC Radio Kent He's championed lowly bands that I've worked Without his influence I'd probably not be in the giant John Peel sadly passed with, enthusiastically ringing me to tell me he job I am today. Our paths sadly never crossed, away last month. The reaction was playing this track or that track, and he was but music was our meeting place. An enormous from friends and colleagues has always a gentleman and marvellous bon viveur loss. over a quiet pint. been forthright, heartfelt and No one has defined my life as much as he, and Gary Farrow – Sony-BMG voluminous. To paraphrase the no one's death has hit me as hard as his. He was A maverick broadcasting legend, who for 40 thoughts of so many, "If God is a truly a God amongst men...and I'll miss him years, with humour and passion, championed dreadfully. new and indie talent like no other. DJ, he's out of a job". Nick Stewart – Endeavour Records Tony Barker – Outside Organisation Paul Gambaccini - Freelance For 40 years, John Peel was part of my life via a In 1976I was 16 and working nights at a petrol The first time I ever set foot in Radio 1 was as a radio set. He introduced me to , station in Liverpool when John Peel introduced university student in 1972 interviewing John Strange Days, Liege and Lief, the songs of me to punk. It became the soundtrack to the rest Peel for the British edition of the still-young Leonard Cohen, Forever Changes, Strictly of my teenage years. I will be forever grateful to . His producer John Walters sat in Personal by Captain Beefheart and helped me Peel for opening my ears to a range of music and, one year later, invited me to give a weekly create and build my record collection through over the years that would never have made the talk on Radio 1. For two years I shared the the late ‘60s and all through the ‘70s. For what airwaves without him. We are all richer for the Walters-and-Peel office, an experience to be it’s worth, my own radio effort was/is entirely experience. relived a decade later by newcomer Andy influenced and mentored by John as a vehicle to Kershaw. play interesting, challenging, eclectic music with Jono Coleman – Heart FM Both of us were happy in our turn to pull up an intelligent delivery. We all have the wonderful John was a one-off and one of the reasons that I inverted metal wastebasket (there were no extra memories to cherish, but oh, how sad his got into music - first at record shops then chairs) and learn from and be inspired by the passing is. playing in bands, then on the radio. John Peel masters. Together with Bob Harris and a couple and Kenny Everett are still my radio heroes and of others, I joined Peel and Walters in fighting the – Altered Images now that both are gone, it makes me feel old and good fight for the soul of Radio 1. He was one of my heroes – we have all lost very human. God bless them both, and thanks Peel taught me honesty in the selection of music some of our musical heritage – he was a one–off. for all the music, and good vibes. and sincerity in its presentation. Earlier this year, He made Altered Images and we never forgot asked me to identify my "spirit him for that support. Nick Tesco – Music Week mentor", and I chose John Peel. We were John Peel was the first person in the music photographed together for the paper, howling in Mike Allen – EMI Publishing industry to ever take The Members, and me laughter at some Peel anecdote. Were it not that Thanks John for , Captain seriously. I'm certainly not alone in that respect. the men in the picture looked older, the photo Beefheart, and many, many more. You opened a The belief he had in new talent, and the value could have been taken of us three decades ago. young boy’s ears to the possibilities and they've that you, as an artist, would put in that belief was When my assistant Will informed me of John's stayed open. And I even forgive you for ignoring enough to drive many careers forward. Even death I felt like a little boy for about five minutes. my band in your first on-air amateur band when you fell out of his favour there was never My mentor and hero was gone, joining on the competition! a sense of resentment, well certainly not on my other side his mentor, Walters. Suddenly I was part, more a sad realisation that, artistically, alone to cope on my own. Then the unremitting David Rowell - Echo you'd stopped being relevant. John Peel was series of phone calls asking for tributes began, Like a lot of people who grew up in the ‘80s, always relevant; he will leave a hole in the and I had to grow up again very quickly. I had to John Peel was, for me, the epitome of cool. A broadcasting world that the imagination on try to explain to the country the enormity of the music man spearheading all that was great in show today will be unable to fill. contributions of this great man, who broke more alternative music. The list of bands that owe a artists than anyone in the history of recorded debt of gratitude to the man is endless. The David Stark – Songlink music and who probably heard more different music world will be a far less interesting place It's hard to remember a time that Peelie wasn't musical selections than any human being who without his dulcet tones. on-air, right from those groovy Big L days, to R1 ever lived. and R4, to every other voiceover on TV today. For the year I was Peel's junior on a show called Charlie Gillett – BBC London My favourite memory is watching him introduce Rock Week I would begin my weekly talk with the Maybe only now will it be fully acknowledged the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Albert Hall in words "Thank you, John". I say them again now, just how extraordinary his influence has been on February 1969. Homebound afterwards, I was this time with the greatest depth of gratitude and British music over the past 35 years. surprised to see him jump in the same tube affection. Thank you, John. From and The Faces, Led Zeppelin carriage as me at South Kensington and sit and Marc Bolan's T Rex, through the whole punk down opposite. We exchanged a few admiring – BBC Radio 2 thing, onto , Misty in Roots and the words about the quality of Hendrix's playing that There were three people who really welcomed White Stripes, his range was limitless, his night and other recent gigs, and that was it. Truly me when I joined Radio 1. Paul Gambaccini, appetite insatiable and his wit infallible. a man of the people, and a great loss to Annie Nightingale and Peely. John had no Everybody had their John Peel moment. For me, everyone involved in British music - from old problems with a working class female scouser in it was the first time I heard Grandmaster Flash hippies to every new kid on the block. music - we swapped demos and bought each and Mbilia Bel. We exchanged banter at the Big other records, and loved doing Top Of The Pops Chill in the summer, as two of the oldest among Jeremy Lascelles – Chrysalis Group together. the 20,000 plus revellers, and now I'm left to As a kid, listening to John Peel's Perfumed Peely had three passions - his family, his music savour what we said. Garden show on Radio London was a true and Liverpool FC. I am sure that right now he is Hard to believe he's gone for good. voyage of discovery. Through him I discovered looking out for Sheila and the kids, catching up Irreplaceable. the music of Captain Beefheart, Jefferson with Marc Bolan and gabbing with Shankly Airplane, the Doors, Hendrix and many, many about how it should be done. God bless you, Steve Tannett – Blujay Management more that totally changed my life. OK, he didn't Peely. Not many people remember that I was in an create the music, but by allowing me to hear it 1977 punk band called Menace but I remember for the first time, he occupied (and still does) a Nik Moore – Work Hard PR taking our first single to John Peel and being very special place in my heart. The man DEFINED my world. allowed to sit in the studio while he played it on At the age of ten, around ‘67/’68, I used to listen air! Needless to say, he will be sorely missed by Gary Levermore – Nettwerk to his shows and learn. To this day, I have the the music industry for being a visionary The first time I met the great man, he’d DJ’d at urge to listen to EVERYTHING: I feel I MUST broadcaster and a diamond geezer to boot! the University of Kent in the autumn of 1983, a know what sounds like what...and he introduced few weeks after I’d sent him one of the early