The next big thing
Charles Spencer
you're probably sick of reading about John Peel, the Radio One disc jockey who died of a heart attack last week and whose passing was marked with the solemn, exhaustive media coverage usually reserved for great statesmen. This was, after all, only a man who played records for a living, Andy Kershaw, one of Peel's proteges and a fellow DJ, went spectacularly over the top in the Independent. Peel, he said, was the most important person in British music since the birth of rock'n'roll'. Come on, Andy, take a grip. More important
than Lennon and McCartney. Jagger and Richards, David Bowie? It's a bit like saying that John Heminges and Henry Condell, who oversaw the publication of the First Folio, were more important than Shakespeare, who wrote the plays it contained.
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