John Walters
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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:
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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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- https://www.discogs.com/artist/168062-John-Walters
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1466346.stm
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1583946/
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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.