Editing John Peel (section)

=== Return to England ===
Peel returned to England in early 1967 and found work with the offshore [[UK pirate radio|pirate radio]] station [[Wonderful Radio London|Radio London]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Cartwright |first=Garth |date=27 October 2004 |title=Obituary: John Peel |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/27/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 |access-date=4 May 2022 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> He was offered the midnight-to-two shift, which gradually developed into a programme, ''[[The Perfumed Garden (radio show)|The Perfumed Garden]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC – 6 Music – Events – Peeling Back The Years – What Was The Perfumed Garden? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/peel/perfumed_garden.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |publisher=BBC |access-date=2024-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913163333/https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/peel/perfumed_garden.shtml |archive-date=2023-09-13 |date=2014-11-21 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=BBC – Radio 1 – Keeping It Peel – Biography – 1967 Part One |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/biography/1960s/1967_Part_One/ |website=www.bbc.co.uk |publisher=BBC |access-date=2024-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422160455/https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/biography/1960s/1967_Part_One/ |archive-date=2023-04-22 |date=2014-12-02 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Peel's show was an outlet for the music of the [[UK underground]] scene. He played classic [[blues]], [[folk music]] and [[psychedelic rock]], with an emphasis on the new music emerging from Los Angeles and San Francisco. As important as the musical content of the programme was the personal – sometimes confessional – tone of Peel's presentation, and the listener participation it engendered. Underground events he had attended during his periods of shore leave, such as the [[UFO Club]] and the [[The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream|14 Hour Technicolor Dream]], together with [[causes célèbres]] like the drug busts of [[the Rolling Stones]] and [[John "Hoppy" Hopkins]], were discussed between records. All this was far removed from Radio London's daytime format. Listeners sent Peel letters, poems and records from their own collections so that the programme became a vehicle for two-way communication; by the final week of Radio London he was receiving far more mail than any other DJ on the station.<ref name="djhistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.djhistory.com/djhistory/archiveInterviewDisplay.php?interview_id=43 |first=Bill |last=Brewster |date=30 April 2004 |website=DJHistory.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216184646/http://www.djhistory.com/djhistory/archiveInterviewDisplay.php?interview_id=43 |title=Archive Interviews: John Peel |archive-date=16 February 2008}}</ref>

After the closure of Radio London in 1967, Peel wrote a column, ''The Perfumed Garden'', for the underground newspaper the ''[[International Times]]'' (from autumn 1967 to mid-1969).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hodgson |first1=Stewart |title=Teenage kicks: The John Peel story |url=https://radiofidelity.com/the-story-of-john-peel/ |website=radiofidelity.com |publisher=Radio Fidelity, LLC |access-date=2024-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416144106/https://radiofidelity.com/the-story-of-john-peel/ |archive-date=2024-04-16 |date=2023-11-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=August 2024}}