timesonline.co.uk JOHN PEEL’S massive record collection could be saved for the nation with lottery funding.
The disc jockey, who died of a heart attack a year ago this month while on a working holiday in Peru, is believed to have had the biggest archive of recorded music in private hands in Britain.
The collection, which is housed in a purpose-built extension at Peel Acres, his farmhouse home in Suffolk, consists of 26,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and 40,000 CDs. It ranges from Beatles singles to records of Mongolian “throat singers”, African railway station bands and Bulgarian women’s choirs."
