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Legend John Peel Dies - Glastonbury Tribute
Glastonbury Festival's new bands tent will be renamed the John Peel Stage in tribute to the veteran BBC Radio 1 DJ, who died yesterday aged 65.
"It's very appropriate because it's all the sort of music that John would have chosen," Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis said.
Eavis recalled Peel's huge influence on the festival, attributing The Smiths' landmark 1984 performance to the DJ. "He chose a band and he made it succeed," said Eavis reports BBC online.
Eavis recalled first meeting John Peel at the age of 18, and the friendship that developed over the years as Peel became the BBC's Glastonbury guru. "He was the lad that always knew which band was going to make the grade," said Eavis.
Similar tributes were paid by Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield he said: "It was because of him I got to hear some of the most obscure but influential music I ever heard. He was a lifeline to hearing music I would never have heard otherwise."
Jarvis Cocker said: "In a world that is becoming ever more homogenised and pre-programmed, John Peel stuck up for the 'sore thumbs' of the music scene and I really can't think of anyone who could have done it better or who's going to do it now he's gone."
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