Old News: John Peel's gravestone
Basil Jet
... has a line from Teenage Kicks engraved on it!
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_02/PeelGravestonePA_468x678.jpg
In other old news, Ian Curtis' gravestone, which had "Love Will Tear Us
Apart" engraved thereon, was stolen last year...
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Jeff Lawrence
wrote:
> ... has a line from Teenage Kicks engraved on it!http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_02/PeelGravestonePA_468x678.jpg
His favourite song of course. Apparently he couldn't listen to it
without bursting into tears. I just re-watched the documentary about
him that was shown after he died and in that he mentioned that he'd
like that line on his gravestone. He then added that he obviously
hoped it wouldn't be for quite a while yet though. Unfortunately
though he was wrong. :-(
Cheers
Jeff
Mike Plowman
He's the only 'celebrity' that I have genuinely shed tears about their
death and I was really shocked and upset when the news broke that he
had died. He'd been a constant in my life since I was 16, corny as it
sounds, played a big part in shaping who I am. It felt like a
favourite uncle had died or something.
Of course, I blame Peru. :-)
Jeff Lawrence
> He's the only 'celebrity' that I have genuinely shed tears about their
> death and I was really shocked and upset when the news broke that he
> had died. He'd been a constant in my life since I was 16, corny as it
> sounds, played a big part in shaping who I am. It felt like a
> favourite uncle had died or something.
I didn't cry (I'm not that soft!) but I was very sad that he died.
Like for you Peel played a huge part in introducing me to lots of
music and I listened to his shows almost addictedly. I used to tape
them all and them go through and chop out all the songs I liked. Of
course there was also a load of unlistenable shite too but that was
the beauty of his shows, you just never knew what was coming next.
> Of course, I blame Peru. :-)
Apparently it was pissed off that he didn't play enough Quechuan nose
flute music. Actually, it was very probably the thin air in Cuzco that
did play a part in him having a heart attack. It can be quite a strain
if you're not used to it.
Of course him dying there made it even worse! Why couldn't it have
been a country I didn't like. Equatorial Guinea perhaps.
Cheers
Jeff
allanbonnetracy
A couple of weeks back during Strictly Come Dancing, when the
professional dancers do their bit, the band played an arrangement of
Ever Fallen In Love.
It kind of worked both the dancing and the music.
A tribute of sorts.
Meanwhile, Fergal nowadays is always turning up on the Daily Politics
and other news programs preaching for the man.
Mike Plowman
<jeff.l...@orange.nl> wrote:
>
>I didn't cry (I'm not that soft!) but I was very sad that he died.
>Like for you Peel played a huge part in introducing me to lots of
>music and I listened to his shows almost addictedly. I used to tape
>them all and them go through and chop out all the songs I liked. Of
>course there was also a load of unlistenable shite too but that was
>the beauty of his shows, you just never knew what was coming next.
That was exactly it. He opened up your ears to stuff you would never
have heard otherwise. And like you, I filled up C90 upon C90 for many
years with stuff from his shows. How a 16 year old living in the
sticks of Buckingamshire would have stumbled across Lee Perry and
Prince Far I anyehere else I don't know.
>
>> Of course, I blame Peru. :-)
>
>Apparently it was pissed off that he didn't play enough Quechuan nose
>flute music. Actually, it was very probably the thin air in Cuzco that
>did play a part in him having a heart attack. It can be quite a strain
>if you're not used to it.
>Of course him dying there made it even worse! Why couldn't it have
>been a country I didn't like. Equatorial Guinea perhaps.
He had diabetes as well IIRC. It was sort of a comfort that he died
somewhere he'd always wanted to visit though. I was at the Fururama
Festival in Leeds in 1980 and looked round to find him stood ten feet
away from me and was quite star struck.
Fred X
<jo...@journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> ... has a line from Teenage Kicks engraved on it!
> http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_02/PeelGravestonePA_468x678.jpg
>
> In other old news, Ian Curtis' gravestone, which had "Love Will Tear Us
> Apart" engraved thereon, was stolen last year...
>
I remember hearing a story which may or may not be true about New Order.
Apparently they took a music journalist to a cemetery and showed him Ian
Curtis's gravestone, but the journalist noticed that it had someone else's
name engraved on it. The band replied "Ah...that's because we couldn't
afford to buy a brand new one for him."
Fred X
Basil Jet
It's rumoured that when Tony Wilson heard Curtis had killed himself he said,
"What a great career move!"
kochanski
> ... has a line from Teenage Kicks engraved on it!
> http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_02/PeelGravestonePA_468x678.jpg
>
> In other old news, Ian Curtis' gravestone, which had "Love Will Tear Us
> Apart" engraved thereon, was stolen last year...
They replaced it with an identical copy soon after. It's just a wee
innocuous kerb stone about 5" high to mark his ashes, it's not like
someone dragged away a huge marble headstone :D
Col
"Mike Plowman" <mike.p...@mydomain.net> wrote in message
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>
>
> He had diabetes as well IIRC. It was sort of a comfort that he died
> somewhere he'd always wanted to visit though. I was at the Fururama
> Festival in Leeds in 1980 and looked round to find him stood ten feet
> away from me and was quite star struck.
You must have been very famous in 1980 for John Peel
to be star struck upon seeing you......
Col
Mike Plowman
wrote:
My band were a big deal back in 1980 you know! :-)
Mike Plowman
wrote:
NO used to occasionally be quite darkly humorous about Curtis in
interviews. I remember seeing one with Steven Morris and the
interviewer asked about IC's death and he replied absilutely straight
faced: 'Well without it we wouldn't have had the success we've had. To
be honest, we were really surprised when he agreed to go along with
the idea.'
Mike Plowman
Aw, I wa shoping for a recreation of the Closer album cover.
Basil Jet
They should have hundreds of them in a big buried Pez dispenser.
tomScotland
Either Kochanski or myself put a photo or two up on facebook after we
visited it. I'll check.
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Mike Plowman
Cool, send us a link on FB if you have.
Fred X
LOL! Yes, their attitudes were quite at odds with the music that they made!
Fred X
Calum
> ... has a line from Teenage Kicks engraved on it!
And some Liver bird poo, by the looks of it.