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Believed to have played a pivatol role in getting The Smiths on the John Peel and David Jensen shows. As summed up by Morrissey in Autobiography:

"The rush of success surged with certainty, and the press began stories of the Smiths turning down six-figure offers from CBS and Virgin, preferring instead Rough Trade – which was untrue. The only label that had offered the Smiths a deal was Rough Trade. Suddenly, Number One magazine lists Hand in glove at number 70 on their official Top 100, and our unrelenting self-financed touring attracts John Walters, who is producer and acting scout for the John Peel radio show. Our timetable then erupts with a series of radio sessions for both David Jensen and John Peel, and our reputation swells a hundredfold. It is a great feeling. John Peel, though, did not ever come to see the Smiths play live, and he did not attend any of the radio sessions. He is cited as instrumental in the Smiths’ success, but if not for the continual exuberance of John Walters, John Peel could never have encountered the Smiths. When I accidentally meet John Peel over the years (two times, and both in motorway service stations), he shyly has nothing to say on both occasions."

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Born May 16, 1938 in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England and died July 30, 2001 in Oxted, Surrey, England, UK. Best known for producing John Peel's legendary BBC Radio 1 show for 12 years, helping Peel to shape the more leftfield side of popular music, Walters was also a highly respected radio producer and broadcaster in his own right, and also a familiar face on British television screens.As a young man he studied as an artist and exhibited his paintings beside those of David Hockney before becoming a teacher. He also achieved some chart success in the 1960s as a trumpet player with the Alan Price Set.

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John Walters (11 July 1939 – 30 July 2001) was a British radio producer, presenter and musician. Initially a schoolteacher and a jazz enthusiast, he played trumpet in The Mighty Joe Young Jazz Men and the 1960s pop group The Alan Price Set before joining BBC Radio 1 in 1967, where he was John Peel's producer from 1969 to 1991.

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