My Peelgrimage: The Pictures

Peelspotter | 17.11.2004 01:16 | Cambridge | London

As promised, here are the pictures to illustrate the article I posted on the Newswire earlier.

TV Vans

The Swarming Papparazzi..!

Filming for the evening news.

D.I.Y. Fanciers' Convention!!

Floral tributes - under 'heavy' gaurd.

Not everyone dressed in black!

Even the builders downed tools.

The Churchyard.

There were hundreds of people in attendance...

...everywhere you looked...

...you were surrounded on all sides...

...by so many people, who had come from all over the land...

...to pay their respects to someone they admired so much.

Even the streets outside were packed!

Respectful silence during the service.

His final appointment...and final broadcast.

Portrait of an Artist as The Man.

I think that the best final summary of the man should be a quote from the Funeral Programme...

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When we trod this land, we walk for one reason.
...to try to help another man think for himself.
The music of our hearts is roots music,
music which recalls history,
because without the knowledge of your history,
you cannot determine your destiny: the music about the present,
because if you're not conscious about the present,
you're like a cabbage in this society.

Misty in Roots 1979

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Nuff Sed.

This is Peelspotter signing off for the last time,
and saying goodbye to a great human being.

R.I.P.

John Peel

1939 - 2004

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