John Muir obituary

My friend John Muir, who has died aged 80, was a producer at BBC Radio 1 during the seminal years of the 1960s. He created the DJ John Peel’s strand of the late-night show Night Ride in 1968, and worked with many of the originals of UK rock: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jeff Beck, Syd Barrett, Genesis, Yes, Wishbone Ash. He also produced the last BBC radio session that Peter Green recorded with Fleetwood Mac.In those days, daytime Radio 1 shamelessly vied with Radio 2 for peak mainstream audi