my youth ends here

"Certainly without John Peel, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today. I just wouldn't have been interested in making my own music, at all, and probably wouldn't be writing."

Lots of nice comments about John Peel abound, but this one is particularly good; almost everyone seems to agree on one thing - the extraordinary human warmth of the man. This post makes it flesh.

Rhodri pays tribute to Peel.