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| - Many of the DJs of the era were extremely flamboyant and actively sought as much media coverage as they could get. JP clearly had little respect for many of his colleagues for such behaviour, with Dave Lee Travis being among his least favourite. He nicknamed him on occasion 'Dicky Lee Torpid', referring in at least one show to Travis taking off records mid play [1]. Like Peel, Travis had started his DJ career on a pirate ship, Radio Caroline, in 1965; unlike him, he resigned on-air in 1993 due to his disagreement with Matthew Bannister's changes.
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| - Many of the DJs of the era were extremely flamboyant and actively sought as much media coverage as they could get. JP clearly had little respect for many of his colleagues for such behaviour, with Dave Lee Travis being among his least favourite. He nicknamed him on occasion 'Dicky Lee Torpid', referring in at least one show to Travis taking off records mid play [1]. Like Peel, Travis had started his DJ career on a pirate ship, Radio Caroline, in 1965; unlike him, he resigned on-air in 1993 due to his disagreement with Matthew Bannister's changes.
* Peel: People like Mike Read and DLT would often complain that they couldn't go anywhere without being recognized, but of course would go everywhere in a tartan suit carrying a guitar, so they would have attracted attention in a lunatic asylum. [2]
* Peel: And that's the end of tonight's programme: the Fall and that was called Futures And Pasts, and our pasts have been the Buzzcocks and the Fall, and our futures are the Yachts. (chuckles) I only put that in there at the end of the programme so I could do that: pretty clever, eh? I thought (so), anyway. You can make up your own mind about it, of course: a thought like that would have blown Dave Lee Travis' brains out. (Long pause while sig plays) Just kidding, Dave, just kidding. Have you ever seen the size of him? Keeps wanting to show me. [3]
* Peel: (after playing 'I Married A Monster From Outer Space' by John Cooper Clarke): ...and was DLT the result of their loathsome union? [4]
* Peel: A jolly good show... was also the title of a programme which Dave Lee Travis amongst others used to introduce on the BBC World Service and which I used to occasionally hear... The first time he did one I was listening to it and he took over from Noel Edmonds and he started his programme with something along the lines of, "this is the hairy cornflake from up the M6 in Manchester." And I thought, there are going to be people sitting somewhere out in the back of beyond in Kenya or somewhere with a herd of goats, listening to this and thinking, "we're supposed to be the backward ones." [5] Peel on his 16 February 1992 (BFBS) show tried to give free copies of Dave Lee Travis photograph book called 'Bit Of A Star' in the hope that listeners would write in for the show.
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