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К великому сожалению всех рокенролльщикофф: нас постигло печальное известие о смерти великого без преувеличения чела - Джона Пила. Вот инфа от агентства Associated Press:
^Influential radio DJ John Peel dead at 65
^Eds: ADDS stints at other U.S. stations in 17th graf; minor
edits; ADDS photo numbers
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^By JILL LAWLESS=
^Associated Press Writer=
LONDON (AP) _ John Peel, a long-serving British
Broadcasting Corp. disc jockey whose enthusiasm for the
offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure launched the careers
of dozens of bands, has died, the BBC said Tuesday. He was
65.
The broadcaster said Peel suffered a heart attack Monday
while vacationing in Peru with his wife, Sheila.
Dr. Alcides Vargas, who worked to revive Peel, told Peru's
Radioprogramas radio that the DJ suffered a heart attack at
a hotel in Cuzco, 350 miles (570 kilometers) southeast of
the Peruvian capital, Lima. He was pronounced dead on the
way to a clinic.
Peel's program on Radio 1, the BBC's flagship pop music
station, exerted a huge influence for more than 30 years.
He was often the first to play demo tapes by little-known
bands, and his enthusiasm propelled some to fame.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said Blair
_ who once played guitar in a college band called Ugly
Rumours _ was "genuinely saddened" by the news.
He said Peel "was a unique voice in British broadcasting
who used that voice to unearth new talent and different
subjects and bring them to the awareness and make them
accessible to a much wider audience."
Peel promoted reggae, hip-hop and punk on the sometimes
conservative BBC, and championed acts ranging from Jimi
Hendrix and David Bowie to The Smiths, The Fall, Pulp and
Northern Irish punks The Undertones, whose "Teenage
Kicks" Peel rated his favorite song.
His live studio sessions were coveted by bands, and many
were released on record as the "Peel Sessions."
"Over the years we've had almost everybody, except The
Beatles and the Rolling Stones, of the kind of big bands of
the past," Peel once told an interviewer. "More recently
Oasis _ I never really thought Oasis were much good to be
honest, so they didn't do one."
Bands Peel did like, such as post-punk outfit Joy Division
and its successor, New Order, often remained deeply
grateful.
"If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy
Division and no New Order," said band member Bernard
Sumner. "He was one of the few people to give bands that
played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he
continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout
his life."
"John Peel's patronage was for me, like countless other
musicians, one of the most significant things that happened
to us in our careers," said Blur frontman Damon Albarn.
Pulp's Jarvis Cocker said Peel "was one of those few
people about whom you could truly say that the world would
have been a much different place without him. For many
years he almost single-handedly championed new and
challenging music in the U.K."
Elvis Costello called Peel "a great man, a fabulous
curmudgeon _ he was as rare as the music that he loved."
Guy Garvey, frontman of Manchester band Elbow, said: "We
owe him everything.
"He was the first person to ever play us on the radio
which I am sure lots of people can say."
Peel was born John Ravenscroft near Liverpool in 1939. As
a teenager, he later said, his life was changed by hearing
Elvis Presley singing "Heartbreak Hotel." In the early
1960s he moved to Dallas, Texas, where his roots in
Liverpool _ newly famous as home of The Beatles _ enabled
him to get a job on WRR radio, hosting a Rhythm 'n' Blues
program called "Kat's Karavan." He then worked at
stations in Oklahoma City and San Bernadino, California.
Returning to Britain, he worked on the pirate station
Radio London, broadcasting from a boat off the English
coast, where he adopted the name John Peel.
He joined the BBC in 1967, broadcasting on Radio 1 and
internationally on the World Service. Since 1998 he also
had presented "Home Truths," a whimsical show about the
travails of family life, on the BBC's talk-based Radio 4.
He is survived by his wife and four children. Funeral
details were not immediately announced.-----
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Самая первая рок-нрольная композиция Rock Around the Clock была записана 12 аперля 1954 года Биллом Хейли и его группой The Comets. Потом был Алан Фрид (в начале карьеры он скрывался под псевдонимом Moondog, опасаясь неудач), который и изобрел термин "рок-н-ролл" (в 50х это кловосочетание имело второй смысл: что-то вроде "трахаться и долбиться" 
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