john peel

[coronaman]

How do you think one of our most cherished broadcasters,,,,,,,the late John Peel should be remembered in his beloved Liverpool????????
What kind of memorial would be most fitting????????

[rja211077]

i think they should rename the airport Liverpool Johns Lennon and Peel airport.

No, really.

[miffy63]

I don't think you can beat a statue of John at a turn table with a drink in his hand. God I miss him.

[naz_nomad]

I'd go with rja211077 ... rename something, or name something after him..

any monument will only get defaced by idiots ... shame really, I think everybody of a ''certain age'' will always miss Peeley and it seems only fitting to have a nice monument, or statue to remind everybody what a great man he was ...

[Wispy68]

I think it would be great to have a bench in a quiet park which would play Johns favourite tunes through headphones!
We could just sit there with a glass of red wine, great music and our memories of a truly great and very much missed person!
Yes, I know it would never happen, due to vandals, but we can dream.....!!

[dot.hawkes]

there should be the best record store in the world right in the middle of the ciity ans u could buy anything there in 7" as" dvd cassette why even 8 track and call it the john peel record store

[A Chill Wind]

Maybe something by Lime Street station, as per Does This Train Stop On Merseyside? by Amsterdam.

As for the record store, it'd have to have a section for 78s...

[yinyang]

What about a John Peel scholarship to a local university for music or broadcasting?

[Kim A]

Am I the only person in the world who wonders why semi-canonisation has become de rigeur for resasonably ordinary people who spent a lifetime doing fairly ordinary jobs? John Peel, no doubting whatsoever that he was an interesting man, did wonderful things in promoting new bands and music and was best beloved by many, but he PLAYED RECORDS ON THE RADIO, for goodness' sake, he didn't find a cure for cancer, prevent a world war or find a solution to the Middle East conflict!

[violetblue]

I don't really think John Peel would approve of a memorial, it doesn't sound very John Peel, if you get my meaning. He's remembered by people that knew him in any case, and for those that didn't, it's too late, unlike in the case of John Lennon, who left a huge recording archive behind .

[A Chill Wind]

Know what you mean </>violetblue, the whole essence of Peel was about looking forward, not back. Something simple, rather than a grand gesture if it had to be something material though I think he'd have settled for being remembered as a generally decent bloke.

[Rock'n'Roll]

I'm with Kim A, The man was a DJ,that's all. The point of whether he was a good one is hardly relevant

[Kim A]

Ah! Rock 'n' Roll, Welcome to my world! xx

[andy-hughes]

I think Kim A raises a valid point here - and John Peel would heartily agree with that sentiment.

This habit of worshiping famous people as though their death is is some way more monumentally tragic because of some imagined connection is an insidious blight on cultural attitudes in the country. It reached its zentih with the endless, and continuing public grieving of Gloria Hunniford over her daughter who was, what ever she may heve been to her imediate family, a TV presenter, and not a particularly memorable or high-profile one at that.

John Peel would have laughed at the notion of a 'memorial' to him as a person - he'd much prefer that everyone who knew of him (as opposed to knowing him personally) simply played Teenage Kicks at full blast, while raising a glass, and then get on with their lives.

[Kim A]

andy-hughes, you're in, too!

[joko]

no, of course your not the only person in the whole world who thinks that, kim a.

i would imagine there is probably a plaque on a bench in a park somewhere but i would think thats as far as it would go, and as much as he would like

i am from liverpool, and i have not heard of any sort of memorial for him. in fact i live very near where he did, and have not heard anything.

[Kim A]

and Joko! Hoorah!