The Olivetti Chronicles

Author(s): John Peel

MUSIC WRITING & CRITICISM

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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780552157049
  • : Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • : Bantam Press
  • : October 2022
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Peel
  • : Paperback
  • : 709