Pete Roche

Pete Roche was a poet, journalist and songwriter from Liverpool. He edited the 1967 anthology, Love, love, love: The new love poetry (Corgi), which included poems by many of the young poets of the era. He was a founding member of the poetry and music group Occasional Word Ensmeble and contributed record reviews to Cream magazine in the early 1970s. He later co-wrote a number of songs with Trevor Lucas of Fairport Convention.

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For a time, Pete Roche seemed to be part of John Peel's circle of friends. On the first Night Ride of 06 March 1968, Peel announces that the following week's guests will be Tyrannosaurus Rex and poet Pete Roche, because he was a neighbour "and he's bigger than me". Roche also appeared on the 1969 "son of Night Ride" show on which Peel created a stir by admitting that he had had VD, but the poet was present in the studio on many other occasions. In an interview,Bridget St John credits him with introducing her to Peel: ''I met John Peel through a guy called Pete Roche, a poet who was affiliated with the Liverpool Scene. He knew people I knew at Sheffield (university)''...

Pete Roche never achieved the fame of the Liverpool poets Adrian Henri, Roger Mc Gough and Brian Patten and although Peel's Dandelion label released an LP by the Occasional World Ensemble, it was unsuccessful and the group soon split up.

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