David Gedge recalled an early meeting with Peel when the DJ was the subject of This Is Your Life (broadcast Jan. 1996): "One of the first times I actually pressed one of my grubby tapes into your palm was when you did a disco in Ilkley. I traveled up from Leeds to come and see you and eventually plucked up the courage. And you were actually I think more interested in how I was going to get home, because I think the trains had all finished or the buses, and you said, “How are you getting back?” I said, “I don’t know, I never thought about that actually.” You said, “I’ll give you a lift.” I said, “You can’t give me a lift, you’re going completely the wrong way.” And in the end, you actually got me in your car, you sent me all the way home, dropped me off at my door … I’ll never forget it, be