A Minutes Noise
The Now Show Team(BBC)

Let's have a minutes noise
From all the girls and boys
Who understand that they lost
A friend the other day cos'
To have a minutes silence
Somehow would be wrong
Let's have a minutes noise for John

Let's have a minutes row
From everyone remembrin' how
He soundtracked all our mis-spent youth
From teenage kids right to Home Truths
To stand in wordless contemplation's
Just not on
Let's have a minutes noise for John

(bridge)
So D.J.s rip up your play-lists
Remember better stuff exists
Now that he has left us
How do we save the world
From bloody Simon Cowell.

Let's have a minutes racket
'Tho he isn't coming back, it
Seems we understand the need
To play something loud and at the wrong speed
A minutes silence couldn't show him
How we feel
Let's have a minutes noise for Peel



Played in A

(G capo 2   G, D, C, Em.   for Folkies!)

It should be available on the BBC Website for a few more days.

I read a letter in, I think The Times, where some-one had written that they thought it might be appropriate to have a minutes noise for John Peel, because of his contribution to music, rather than a minutes silence.
It was very poignant to have a song along the same lines - (perhaps the R4 team read the same letter) the same week and with the Remembrance Celebrations at the same time.