0
Bearsuit
Bearsuit
indie pop band from Norwich, UK
1
Paul Rooney
Paul Rooney
British artist
2
Galaxie 500
Galaxie 500
American alternative rock band
3
Wreckless Eric
Wreckless Eric
English rock and roll and new wave singer-songwriter
4
Ballboy
Ballboy
band
5
Melys
Melys
Welsh Rock Band
6
Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers
English singer-songwriter, record producer
7
Meanwhile, back in Communist Russia...
Meanwhile, back in Communist Russia...
8
Steve Lamacq
Steve Lamacq
British DJ
9
BOB
BOB
Indie pop band from North London, England
10
The Ruts
The Ruts
band
11
Extreme Noise Terror
Extreme Noise Terror
British band
12
Hefner
Hefner
band
13
Strawberry Switchblade
Strawberry Switchblade
Scottish pop duo
14
Dreadzone
Dreadzone
British electronic group
15
The Delgados
The Delgados
Scottish indie rock band
16
Paul Jones
Paul Jones
British singer, actor, harmonica player, radio personality and television presenter
17
Voodoo Queens
Voodoo Queens
18
60 Ft. Dolls
60 Ft. Dolls
British band
19
Credit to the Nation
Credit to the Nation
musical artist
20
Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura
Scottish indie pop band
21
Sluts of Trust
Sluts of Trust
22
Helen Love
Helen Love
Welsh indie band
23
The Men They Couldn't Hang
The Men They Couldn't Hang
band
24
Rooney
Rooney
British lo-fi band
25
Raphael Ravenscroft
Raphael Ravenscroft
British musician, composer and author
26
Ten Benson
Ten Benson
rock band from London
27
McCarthy
McCarthy
British indie pop band
28
Period Pains
Period Pains
29
14 Iced Bears
14 Iced Bears
30
The Family Cat
The Family Cat
31
Dawn of the Replicants
Dawn of the Replicants
32
18th Dye
18th Dye
band
33
Kenickie
Kenickie
rock band from Sunderland, United Kingdom
34
A House
A House
band
35
Spizzenergi
Spizzenergi
band
36
The Wedding Present
The Wedding Present
British indie rock group
John Peel
English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist

John Peel

Intro
English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist
Awards Received
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
News

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

Peel was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio. He is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in a multitude of genres, including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal, and British hip hop. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important man in music for about a dozen years".

Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular "Peel sessions", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that would later achieve fame. Another feature was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.

Peel appeared on television occasionally as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme, which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.