A date for your diary fellow Collectors - John Peel's Record Collection Online & Interactive

Music legend John Peel’s record collection, one of the most celebrated in the world, is being made into an interactive online museum for the public.

His family have given exclusive access to the collection which includes 25,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and many thousands of CDs.

John Peel’s wife and Patron of the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, Sheila Ravenscroft, introduces John Peel’s Record collection and explains how it was catalogued and how it is going to be made available on The Space, together with other material.

Click here to take a tour around John Peel’s virtual record collection

Click here to view 'A' - the first 100 albums filed under the letter A in John's collection. Letter B follows on 8th May, C on the 15th May and so on until October 2012.


Courtesy of Jeff Klingman at The L Magazine:-
10 Things We Learned From John Peel's Online Record Collection | The Measure

very cool!

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Yeah, I came across this yesterday. Awesome idea. Can't wait for them to get more stuff up.

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Gradually decreasing the quality of my own obituary.

Awesome, thanks for posting.

Yes, that's awesome! Some of the best record stuff of artists/bands have been made under John Peel Session. I wouldn't like The Cure if it wasn't because they played a BBC session... And there is so many other... I'm going to see how ABBA was... See ya!