The late great John Peel (real name John Ravenscroft) made a unique and extraordinary impact on music in the UK. With interests ranging though blues, folk, pop, prog rock, psychedelia, metal, reggae, punk, new wave, electronica and even the dreaded hip-hop, Peel's musical tastes and endless quest to promote novel, innovative, niche and obscure music provided an inspiration to generations of young and not so young listeners to his late night Radio 1 show. Records (occasionally played at the wrong speed) were interspersed with recorded sessions from upcoming bands, gems such as Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and, from 1976, the annual Festive Fifty. Plus plenty of self-effacing dry humour, and snippets of life at his family home in Great Finborough, which he referred to as 'Peel Acres', with his wife, affectionally known as 'The Pig'. My Peel period lasted from around 1977 for a decade or so and prompted many record purchases that I still enjoy today. Younger cachers may be mystified, but you will know what I mean if you are around 60 and have singles from Thomas Leer, Robert Rental, Big in Japan, Fatal Microbes, Native Hipsters, Kleenex and many others in your collection in addition to more 'mainstream' bands such as the Fall.
According to his Wikipedia page, Peel's funeral at Bury St. Edmund's was attended by over 1000 people. And on his Home Truths BBC radio show he once remarked ' I definitely want to be buried ..…. I want the children to be able to stand solemnly at my graveside and think lovely thoughts along the lines of 'Get out of that one, you swine', which they won't be able to do if I've been cremated'. The Liver Bird at the top of his gravestone marks his passion for Liverpool FC, and the words at the bottom are the first line of his favourite song Teenage Kicks.
The cache is an offset multi to be found at N 52 11.ABC E 0 56.DEF. Two answers need to be looked up on the internet, the rest are available at GZ where the great man's grave is located:
JP's neighbour to the left Phyllis Martin was born in 19CA
B = number of letters in the first word of the last line on JP's grave
D = number of letters in JP's third name
E = number of letters in the first name of the father of Gilbert Bevan (grave behind JP)
F = number of letters in the name of the city in which JP met his premature end at the age of 65
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