9:06 am: Influential radio DJ John Peel dead at 65
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John Peel, a long-serving British Broadcasting Corp. disc jockey whose enthusiasm for the offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure launched the careers of dozens of bands, has died, the BBC said Tuesday.
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One of the world's greatest singers, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, dies aged 71 after a battle with cancer.
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Internet Radio has been sentenced to death. \
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The permanent replacement for late DJ John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show goes on air on Tuesday.
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John R. Pepper II, co-founder of the first nationwide radio station with programming targeting a black audience, has died. He was 91.
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Veteran British broadcaster John Peel, who championed pretty much every new cutting edge pop and rock act over the past 35 years on his radio shows, has died after a heart attack, the BBC announced on Tuesday.
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John Peel the most influential and widely respected DJ of several generations of music fans died suddenly after a heart attack on Monday, while on holiday with his family in Peru.
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Former BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ Kevin Greening has died at the age of 44, his agent confirms.
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Mr. Peel was a BBC radio disc jockey who was a champion of innovative and independent music for nearly four decades.
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THE BBC has rejected claims from one of its DJs that John Peel was âworn outâ and felt marginalised by the corporation before his death from a heart attack.
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Veteran DJ Alan "Fluff" Freeman, whose "Not 'arf" catchphrase made him famous, dies aged 79.
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John Peel, the broadcaster whose shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4 endeared him to listeners across generations, has died aged 65.
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The late John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show will be succeeded in February by three shows hosted by three DJs.
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Tributes poured in last night for legendary radio DJ John Peel, whose untimely death left generations of music fans in mourning. The veteran East Anglian-based presenter, who discovered dozens of major bands
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Syd Barrett, the troubled genius who co-founded Pink Floyd but spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, a spokeswoman for the band said Tuesday. He was 60.
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Some of the country&#39;s most successful rock musicians yesterday paid tribute to John Peel, the veteran Radio 1 DJ, whom they credited with having played a crucial part in their rise to fame.
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Radio DJ John Peel, one of the key figures in British rock music over the past 35 years, who championed virtually every important act of that period on his long-running show, has died after a heart attack, the BBC announced.