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| - Peel admired Zane's work on BBC Radio One. On occasions he would mistakenly call him Zane Grey, who was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts. In 2003 in front of an audience, Peel criticised many Radio One DJ's who seem to copy acts of shouting and competitions from children's TV presenters, but gave an exemption to Zane Lowe, who enjoyed playing music: "And I like Zane Grey..Zane, he shouts probably more than anyone else, but he's very very keen on his music and I can forgive a man a lot for that, because as I say historically, it's been people by dickheads basically, who had absolutely no interest in music at all and just saw it as a stepping stone to a career in crap TV." Zane praised Peel in an interview with The Independent in November 2003, stating to Ian Burrell: "John Peel comes in with a throwaway comment and three minutes of edgy Japanese punk rock and makes me feel like I'm doing the breakfast show" Peel on his show from 27 November 2003 thanked Zane for what he said on The Independent and in May 2004, shared his session of Morrissey with Zane by having it split between songs on both of their shows. After Peel's death, Zane paid his tribute to Peel on the Keeping It Peel website by stating: "Just adding my love and respect to a lovely man who would have been horrified to know how intimidated I was by him. His love of new music and the life it gave him was never taken for granted by either John or the people who shared in it. More than anything, I feel privileged to have briefly met and worked alongside such a passionate and funny man." [2]
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