John Peel
Birthday: August 30, 1939 in Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK
Birth Name: John Robert Parker Ravenscroft
John Peel was born on August 30, 1939 in Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, England as John Robert Parker Ravenscroft. He is known for his work on The Goodies (1970), Five Seconds to Spare (2000) and Wild A ...Show More
The one distinguishing feature about early-'70s progressive rock was that it didn't progress.
The one distinguishing feature about early-'70s progressive rock was that it didn't progress.
[on his role as an influential DJ] People say there are certain bands and obviously you advance them Show more
[on his role as an influential DJ] People say there are certain bands and obviously you advance them a little bit and bring them to a slightly wider audience than they previously had, but at the same time there are numbers of bands whose records I've stoutly resisted playing and I've refused to have in session like U2 and The Police and Dire Straits, all of whom applied for sessions at one time or another, all of whom were turned down by myself and producer John Walters, quite rightly so I think, so if ever I started to think of myself as some sort of kingmaker, I can reflect back on those bands who have become stupendously successful... and Bruce Springsteen. When his earlier records arrived, I thought they were rubbish and no-one else could understand why I felt like this, I thought they were dreadful, I still think they're dreadful as a matter-of-fact and so it's really quite a good thing I think for me to turn against you because it's a guarantee of stupendous success. Hide
When I was younger I watched a lot of cartoons, mostly of seafaring folk.
When I was younger I watched a lot of cartoons, mostly of seafaring folk.
[on the music of the late 1960s] My favorite LP of that era, really, was and remains Country Joe's [ Show more
[on the music of the late 1960s] My favorite LP of that era, really, was and remains Country Joe's [Country Joe and the Fish] "Electric Music For The Mind And Body", and I couldn't understand why it wasn't in the charts, 'cos everybody I knew had a copy of it. But, of course, it was actually that everybody who had a copy of it was somebody that I knew. Hide
Everything changed when I heard [Elvis Presley]. Where there had been nothing, there was suddenly so Show more
Everything changed when I heard [Elvis Presley]. Where there had been nothing, there was suddenly something. Hide
I never make stupid mistakes - only very, very clever ones.
I never make stupid mistakes - only very, very clever ones.
I gave up cycling after being victim of a hit-and-run en route from Broadcasting House to my mum's h Show more
I gave up cycling after being victim of a hit-and-run en route from Broadcasting House to my mum's house in Notting Hill. It involved Darth Vader, men from the Middle East and bodily fluids--all of them mine. Hide
["Why don't you?" Show] My reaction as a kid... to seeing a kid on TV... was to hate that kid.
["Why don't you?" Show] My reaction as a kid... to seeing a kid on TV... was to hate that kid.
John Peel's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (13)
