John Walters, John Peel's producer from 1969 to 1991, was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire on 11 July 1939. In 1966 he married Helen Gallagher; he died in Oxted, Surrey on 30 July 2001. Walters studied fine art at Durham University and worked as a schoolteacher and journalist in Newcastle before embarking on a career as a professional musician. Originally a trumpet player with local trad jazz bands (some tracks by Bill Croft's Blue Star Jazzmen, with Walters on trumpet, appeared in 2014 on a Lake Records anthology, "British Traditional Jazz At A Tangent Vol. 4 - Territory Bands"), he went on to join the Alan Price Set, toured with them and played on most of their hits. He appeared with them at the last British concert by the Beatles, at the Empire Pool, Wembley, when Price's group were one o