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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

The Guardian have done a fabulous job with their John Peel tribute. Radio 1 have done okay (other than playing Teenage Kicks once every five minutes from 2pm until about 5pm yesterday with Colin Murray sounding way out of his depth). There's a tribute programme here, with some nice words from sellabrities here. The Front Row tribute has had me in tears again.

We were at the 2002 Sony Awards when John was given his gold lifetime achievement award. I'm not sure he was expecting it, he certainly didn't seem to have a speech prepared. We were leaning over the balcony looking down on the tables of people listening as the award tape was played, encompassing a bare fraction of his radio career, as John sat really quietly at his table. When he got up to speak, he burst into tears at the podium, and his wife Sheila joined him on stage as he said he was very humbled to be receiving the award, as all he was doing was living the dream.

I adore this man. I hated most of the music he played - and to be honest found his radio show almost unlistenable to - but I loved the passion and belief he had in everything that he did. I loved Home Truths and his ridiculous little off hand remarks that would have people writing and ringing in for months afterwards. Home Truths is such an amazing programme, because most of the people involved in the show aren't professional broadcasters, and people come on to tell the most amazing, moving, disturbing, inspiring, amusing and entertaining stories. I loved the way that he spoke about his family, and always harboured secret fantasies of being adopted by him and Sheila and going to live with them in the country side.

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