Olivetti Chronicles

Product Description

John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show Home Truths" became required listening for millions. But all the while Peel was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter creating copy for an array of patient editors. He wrote articles columns & reviews for newspapers & magazines as diverse as " The Listener" " Oz" " Gandalfs Garden" " Sounds" "the Observer" "the Independent" & " Radio Times". Now for the first time the best of these writings have been brought together
- selected by his wife Sheila & his four children. Music of course is a central & recurring theme & he writes on music in all its forms from Tubular Bells to Berlin punk to Madonna. Here you can read John Peel on everything from the perils of shaving to the embarrassments of virginity & from the strange joy of Eurovision to the horror of being sick in trains. At every stage the writing is laced with Johns brilliantly acute observations on the minutiae of everyday life. This endlessly entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans & a reminder of just why he remains a truly great Briton."