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The Olivetti Chronicles (Hardcover)

by John Peel (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press (23 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 059306061X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593060612
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,814 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 and reviews for newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Listener, Oz, Gandalf's Garden, Sounds, the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times. Now for the first time, the best of these writings have been brought together - selected by his wife, Sheila, and his four children. Music, of course, is a central and recurring theme, and 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, and from the strange joy of Eurovision to the horror of being sick in trains. At every stage, the writing is laced with John's brilliantly acute observations on the minutiae of everyday life. This endlessly entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans and a reminder of just why he remains a truly great Briton.


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John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows defined popular culture and shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show, Home Truths, became required listening for millions. But all the while, John was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter, committing his laconic brilliance to paper. He wrote articles, columns and reviews for newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Listener, Oz, Gandalf’s Garden, Sounds, the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times. He was even, briefly, a correspondent for Bike magazine.
Now for the first time, the best of these writings have been brought together – selected and introduced by John’s wife, Sheila, and his four children. Music, of course, is a central and recurring theme, and 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, and from the strange joy of Eurovision to the horror of being sick in trains. At every stage, the writing is laced with John’s brilliantly acute observations on the minutiae of everyday life.
This extraordinary, inimitable and endlessly entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans and a reminder of just why he remains a truly great Briton.

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book since the last one, 23 Oct 2008
By Dave (Leicester) - See all my reviews
I loved the last John Peel book, Margrave of the Marshes, and was horribly sad to think there could never be another one. Well, happily, I was wrong. Here is another one. A whole volume of Mr Peel's finest writings from over the years on all sorts of brilliant, bizarre and very Peelie subjects. A complete and utter joy from start to finish. You need this in your life!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff, 1 Dec 2008
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A great nostalgic read. Perfect for the 40 somethings who can recall many of the events featured in the articles which were written in the 70s. It will jog your memory to forgotten bands, such as Snafu. I can remember them playing the Ipswich Gaumont around 1975. Living in Suffolk, I still find it hard to believe that John is not around, I used to see him accommpanying Sheila to matches at Portman Road on occasions. Such a great man.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ipswich - a black hole., 22 Oct 2008
By Moony (Ipswich, England) - See all my reviews
I read the article entitled Ipswich, from this collection the other day, on the basis that i was born and brought up there. It details a Peel DJ gig in the town....in which nobody turns up. He is back home and having his dinner by 9.30 having turned the wheels of steel to no-one at all. This just about sums up my disdain for my home town in terms of cultural pursuits and its inability to embrace anything at all beyond Jim Davidson and Frankie & Benny style chain diners. Its a black hole for entertainment and enjoyment. So its funny that Peel should have lived so close to it. Whats the rest of the book like? What do you think? Its Peel. He's the don. Stick it on your chuffing christmas list.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An unforgettable voice
The mighty John Peel, so cruelly taken from us too soon, was a wily and yet fond observer of the peculiarities of this bizarre thing we call life. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Emanon

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for all Peel fans
I really enjoyed this book. Like millions of britons I grew up listening to John Peel and his amusing anecdotes told in his inimitable self-deprecating style. Read more
Published 3 months ago by I. D. Murphy

5.0 out of 5 stars Great over breakfast
I read this over breakfast for a few weekends. My poor husband had to dodge flying toast crumbs as I spluttered with laughter. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Swiss Pertelote

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks to the family
One of the joys of listening to both John Peel's Music (as I did in the 70s and 80s on BFBS) and Home Truths was that you were never sure what was coming next. Read more
Published 10 months ago by A. I. McCulloch

3.0 out of 5 stars A mIxed Bag
Peel was always something of an enigma - very much the maverick, trend setting DJ but also strangely part of the establishment and that comes out in this book, which collects... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. Peter Steward

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