He met his first wife here and married her.(i’m sure the liverpool background and accent helped) He started his radio career here on WRR (AM) in Dallas - while this was unpaid, he was able to use this to jump to paid gigs, including becoming KLIF’s official Beatles correspondent when Beatlemania hit the US.He then actually relayed that story TO the echo He also worked for an insurance company in Dallas, where he met JFK and later snuck into the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald disguised as a Liverpool Echo reporter.He moved to Texas at 21 to work in the family trade of cotton production.He served for a time in the royal artillery in the 50’s.This blossomed into a desire to host his own radio show, so that he could play music “he wanted others to hear” He kept to himself in school and got into record collecting at an early age.Near liverpool, Peel grew up in the village of Burton – Peel’s father was a well to do cotton merchant and Peel was sent away to get a fancy education at the Shrewbury school – was described by the headmaster as both “extraordinarily eccentric” and “amazingly perceptive”.John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, AKA John Peel, was born on August 30th 1939 in Heswall, England.The discussion will culminate in the “John Peel Sessions” album released in 2016 for record store day and heavily bootlegged prior to that. To uncover the history of John Peel, how he made himself into such an influential musical tastemaker in England, and how he got to know Jack White.View past episode show notes here! Episode 41 – The John Peel Sessions
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