Artist	Song
The velvet underground	sunday morning
capt beefheart	sure nuff, n'yes I do
country joe & the fish	not so sweet Martha Lorraine
the mothers of invention	duke of prunes
the electric prunes	wind-up toys
marc bolan	hippy gumbo
canned heat	rollin' and tumblin'
attack	any more than i do
roy harper	sophisticated beggar
grateful dead	cold rain and snow
incredible string band	the mad hatter's song
the syn	14hr technicolor dream
love	the castle
shawn phillips	coal tattoo
jeff beck group	rock my plimsoul
traffic	coloured rain
jon	is it love?
donovan	guinevere
tyrannosaurus rex	rings of fortune
orange bicycle	hyacinth threads
paul butterfield blues band	look over yonder's wall
moby grape	changes
the purple gang	granny takes a trip
pink floyd	astronomy domine
judy collins	liverpool lullaby

Comment:

NO ONE had more passion for music than John Peel, and no DJ was ever so much loved in return.

Over 40 years, the sleepy-voiced Scouser championed everyone from David Bowie and Marc Bolan to The Sex Pistols, The Smiths, The Fall and The Strokes.

Of the millions of songs he listened to, Peel's favourite was a new wave classic - Teenage Kicks by The Undertones. He once said he wanted a line from the song - 'Teenage dreams, so hard to beat' - on his tombstone.

But Peel never cared what was cool - he just played what he liked. And unlike the 'Jocks' who ruled Radio One, he didn't talk over the music.

Peel was born John Parker Ravenscroft near Liverpool in 1939.

He suffered through an unhappy childhood - his parents were often distant, and he was largely raised by a nanny.

But after a miserable spell at a minor public school, his life changed forever when he heard Elvis Presley singing Heartbreak Hotel.

He moved to Dallas, Texas, in the early 60s. Beatlemania was at its height, and his Liverpool roots helped him get a job as a DJ on a local radio station.

Peel came home to work on pirate station Radio London, broadcasting from a boat off the coast. But he found his true home in 1967, when he joined the brand new Radio One.

From the start,Peel went where his colleagues feared to tread.

Led Zeppelin star ROBERT PLANT recalled yesterday: 'He gave us airplay in the early days, when we were considered taboo by the BBC identikit disc jockey.'

'The main thing that struck us was that they were total hippies. They never lost their 60s ideals.'

Peel's neighbours loved him. Robin Fisher, 47, said: 'He was a great bloke and always had time for a chat.

'He used to run the local youth club when I was a teenager and took around 20 of us away on holidays. He was famous - but it didn't make any difference to us.'

Peel was awarded the OBE in 1998. He loved his annual stints hosting BBC TV's coverage of the Glastonbury festival and was a fan of new bands such as The Strokes and The White Stripes.

But he also branched out by presenting Radio 4's Home Truths, a whimsical show about the trials of family life that won a string of Sony radio awards.

Listeners loved his deadpan tales about 'The Pig' - his affectionate nickname for Sheila.

Peel's dry sense of humour came through again when he revealed that he hoped to drop dead at his post in his Radio One studio.

In an interview to mark his60th birthday, he joked: 'I would quite like to die on the air, but not in a kind of melodramatic way.

'I would prefer to go during a long track. Then a continuity announcer would come on trying to stay calm and saying, 'John seems to have been taken ill. We will take you over to Radio Two.' 'Then you would hear the sound of my heels being dragged down the steps and that will be that.'

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