I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
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| Birth: | 30th August, 1939 |
| Death: | 25th October, 2004 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Disc Jockey, Journalist, Radio Presenter |
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John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, known professionally as John Peel was born in Heswall, Merseyside, England. He was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important man in music for about a dozen years". He was renowned for discovering and championing emerging artists and for his connossieurship of groundbreaking offbeat music and performers.
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