The regular reader of this blog may remember that I took the death of John Peel rather hard. I was by no means the only one - the man informed the musical taste of a generation. Since the Peelmeister's death, a number of sites have cropped up painstakingly archiving the man's work. Teenage Kicks 3000 is but one of the crop, and I blog it just at the point when the keeper of TK3K lists the Festive Fifty for 1986. It's a festive fifty I remember well - I was a first year Drama student at the time. Peelie actually lectured his listeners for predictability - The Smiths made up seven of the fifty and four of the top ten. I remember him hitting the heights of tetchyness when he revealed the number one, threatening to knock the whole exercise on the head unless his listeners showed more imagination...
Can you imagine any media figure today both garnering such affection and acting in such a way? Such was the legend that was Peelie. What a guy.
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