User:Mark Luetchford

I'm puzzled - first time I have engaged in such activity - don't really know what I'm writing on and who will see this but if its to introduce me - I'd just like to say thanks to the folk who set this all up. I have carried my treasured tapes through my life and they are offerred here as homage to a great man who was so great he didn't even realise how great he was. My world would have been a very different place without John Peel and now because others share this experience I am able to share a few mixtapes from the 1980s and will build some observations around them. In the end it is just music but I would have a different soundtrack to my life if I didn't start listening in 1977 and finished in 2004. I listened to Siouxie's show and then 2 days later the world changed forever. I am sad almost everyday that it did not continue to be so for the whole of my life.

My soundtrack would not be the same without him. I am sure we all have our lists - for my 16-20 it was Marley, Pistols, Clash, The Jam, Misty, Joy Division, Specials, New Order, Billy Bragg,The Pogues, The Smiths. He also gave me Soul, Blues, Folk, Reggae, Skiffle, and "World". Half Man Half Biscuit and The Fall. I had my little obscure favourites - Patrik Fitzgerald, Dolly Mixture and Terry and Gerry. Later I would not have found Tricky, Pulp, Belle and Sebastian, or Helen Love ... read more in my mix tape area ...