Review: The Olivetti Chronicles by John Peel

A welcome addition to Peel's printed oeuvre after the truncated autobiography, Margrave of the Marshes, this selection of his journalism has been arranged, rather whimsically one feels, by alphabetical order of headline rather than chronologically. The reason for this, says his son William in the introduction, is "so that we could engineer a bit of balance to the book", which only begins to make sense if you accept that the watershed of punk rock made as much of a difference to John Peel's writi...

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