‘On best behaviour, he was a joy’: the lost archive of English pop eccentric Vivian Stanshall
January 2023
Other lives
Rick Sanders obituary
Other lives: Journalist and musician with the poetry-music band the Occasional Word
November 2022
‘Between hilarity and severity’: how Bogshed transfixed a cult audience
John Peel loved them; the NME was briefly thrilled. But as a career-spanning Bog-Set is released, our writer recalls how for a select few their awkward sounds were life-changing
June 2022
‘I chatted about the weather with Janet Jackson’: the Glastonbury festival I’ll never forget
Broadcaster Lauren Laverne, singer Mahalia, Michael Cragg and Laura Snapes recall the magic, the weirdness and the sheer horror of their trips to Worthy Farm
May 2022
John Peel: personal records and memorabilia set for Bonhams auction
Items including a handwritten letter from David Bowie and Peel’s horn gramophone will be up for sale next month
January 2022
Brief letters
Wet Leg’s Chaise Longue is No 1 in the Festive 50
Brief letters: Pop music | Unseasonally mild weather | Still-blooming roses | Liverpool and slavery | Levelling up
October 2021
Richard H Kirk obituary
Experimental electronic musician and founding member of the Sheffield-based band Cabaret Voltaire
July 2020
Steve Barker: the 'anti-John Peel' sidelined by the BBC after 43 years
The 72-year-old DJ has been beaming leftfield music – plus interviews with Bono, Morrissey and more – into Lancashire since 1977, but drastic local radio cuts have ‘left us to drown’
March 2019
The BBC cutting Late Junction is a blow for experimental music
Luke Turner
The Radio 3 show dropping from three nights a week to one deprives audiences of musical diversity and removes a vital lifeline for left-field musicians
August 2018
From the Guardian archive
D’ye ken John Peel? – archive, 1968
7 August 1968: The Peel cult is easy to understand. The DJ is 27, but recognisably of the same generation as today’s students: cool, offhand, mildly ironic
March 2018
The Guardian view on the death of NME: the end of an era
Editorial: The news that the music weekly will no longer appear in print is unsurprising. Where should we look for the sense of excitement it once offered?
January 2018
Mark E Smith obituary: the Fall's driving force was poet, satirist and misanthrope
Frontman of the Manchester post-punk band was notorious for his deadpan black humour and confrontational attitude
September 2017
Terry Wogan voted greatest BBC radio presenter
John Peel and Sue MacGregor second and third in Radio Times poll of leading figures in broadcasting
June 2017
Other lives
John Muir obituary
Other lives: Producer at BBC Radio 1 who created John Peel’s strand of Night Ride
September 2016
You Say You Want a Revolution review: a dizzying trip to the heart of the 1960s
From CIA leaflets to Twiggy coathangers, the details matter in this sensory bombardment of a show, jam-packed with music, style and rebellious history
March 2016
When I got my Top of the Pops break, Mum got me new pyjamas
Music blog
The story of Teenage Kicks: how a punk classic was born
February 2016
1960s revolutions to feature in major exhibition at the V&A
John Peel record collection will be star of show that will explore social, cultural and intellectual changes of the late 1960s
January 2016
From the Guardian archive
Shake-up planned at Radio 1 after Relax ban
The Guardian, 27 January 1984: Mary Harron investigates the Radio 1 ban on the hit record and rumours of impending changes to the John Peel show
