John Peel: ‘If something has me confused, I want to play it on the radio’

The godfather of freeform radio:

With David Cavanagh’s social history of John Peel’s shows winning rave reviews, we hear from the great man himself, in this 1971 Melody Maker interview, taken from Rock’s Backpages:  http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/30/john-peel-1971-interview-melody-maker-michael-watts-rocks-backpages