Hi, this is John Peel...

"I think I covered the John Peel 'attitude' problem before, but briefly he was all over us when we started but hated us when we became successful, because he thought success was automatically corrupting. For example we got a bigger car when we could afford it so the six of us (inc. driver) could actually have a seat each on our long journeys. We had an argument over this at a service station on the M1. He said we were being image conscious (I think 'Black Night' was in the charts at the time) I pointed out that only someone either very image conscious (in the category 'reverse snobbery') or very stupid would regularly embark on journeys from London to arrive and drive around Liverpool in a clapped out Land Rover. That was the last time I ever shared a thousand on a raft (beans on toast) with the man, who has carved out a career for himself dumping artists once they have become successful."