Broadcaster Peel's lyric epitaph

[Bootser]

John Peel's gravestone has been erected three years after his death, bearing a lyric from his favourite song.

Peel was Radio 1's longest serving DJ when he died aged 65 in October 2004, famously championing The Undertones' Teenage Kicks on his show.

 

He often said he would like the song's line "Teenage dreams, so hard to beat" on his tombstone. Lead singer Feargal Sharkey called it "flattering".

 

The DJ is buried in Great Finborough, Suffolk, where he lived for 33 years.

 

Peel's widow, Sheila Ravenscroft, said: "We have put the words on the stone that he would've wanted. I wouldn't dare do anything else!"

 

Explaining the reason for the three-year delay in erecting the stone, she said: "I suppose that it was my fault really. I couldn't face it to start with.

 

Liverpool FC

 

"For the first year we couldn't do anything because the ground has to settle. Then it took a long time to find a traditional type of York stone I knew John would like. A stonemason friend did the work."

 

Peel's second love was Liverpool FC and its emblem, the Liver Bird, adorns the top of his gravestone.

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