With David Cavanagh’s social history of John Peel’s shows winning rave reviews,we hear from the great man himself, in this 1971 Melody Maker interview, and taken from Rock’s BackpagesSomehow I always associate John Peel with the word “kind”. A long as I can remember he has been calling everything kind. Hamsters are kind. Malayan seven-string guitars are kind. The Pig is kind. So is walking in the park. kind. Really kind.
VD isn’t kind,but then he didn’t say it was. “I had clap once and it wasn’t kind,” he told us. All over 247 metres on the radio, or he said it.
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Source: theguardian.com