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John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey and radio presenter.
He was one of the original DJs of Radio 1 in 1967 and the only one remaining on Radio 1 at the time of his death. Known for the extraordinary range of his taste in music and the occasional mistakes (such as playing records at the wrong speed) that marked his shows, John Peel was one of the most popular and respected DJs in the United Kingdom. His influence on alternative rock, pop, and dance music is widely acknowledged as being incalculably large.
Early life Peel was born in Heswall in the Wirral, near Liverpool, the son of an upper middle class cotton merchant, and educated as a boarder at Shrewsbury School. His housemaster, R. H. J. Brooke, whom Peel described as "extraordinarily eccentric" and "amazingly perceptive", wrote on one of his school reports:
After finishing his National Service in 1959 he went to the United States and first worked for WRR Radio in Dallas, Texas. While there he attended the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before Oswald's assassination. He later worked for KOMA in Oklahoma City using the name John Ravencroft and KMEN in San Bernardino, California.
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