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John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts

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John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts
Phone:
+44 1449 774678

Address:
Church Walk, Stowmarket IP14 1ET, England

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, dub reggae, indie rock, post-punk, electronic music, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, jungle and dance music. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as the most important man in music for about a dozen years. In 2012 he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular Peel sessions, which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that would later achieve great fame. Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.Peel appeared occasionally on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.
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