Ian Peel (journalist)

Ian Peel (born 1972) is a British music journalist.

He is perhaps most well-known as founder of the magazines Classic Pop magazine and Long Live Vinyl.

He has written as a regular columnist for The Guardian, DJ magazine, Record Collector, .net and Music Business International (sister publication of Music Week). His work has also appeared in The Times, BlackBook and Sound On Sound.

Peel is a commentator on, and curator of, 12-inch single and remixes. He wrote Classic Pop magazine's Top 50 12"s of the Eighties special edition, and curated three volumes of the compilation series The Art of the 12". In 2016 he wrote the Afterword of Rob Grillo's book, Is That The 12" Remix?.

Peel used 12" remixes and rare edits to curate the soundtrack to In The AM, a film by The The. The soundtrack itself was released as In The AM (Ian Peel Mix) as the closing track on The The's compilation of 12" mixes, Stretched, and as part of the group's box set, London Town 1983-1993.

According to the Penny Black music blog, "Most of the tracks on The Art of the 12” - which has been described by Peel on its cover as “150 minutes of blockbusters, rarities, vanities and mysteries” - have either never been released before on CD or sometimes at all."

Peel has spent many years archiving and curating the work of ZTT Records, Trevor Horn and Sarm Studios. His work was profiled by The Word magazine in 2010: "What Ian inherited was a ton of rotting cardboard boxes and a cataloguing nightmare," reported Andrew Harrison. "What he found, though, is dazzling to anyone who loves the work of Trevor Horn and the profligate madness of ZTT. With its antiquated floppies and hard discs the size (and weight) of lorry tyres, this room crystallises a pause between the old world of Take 1 and Take 2 and the future in which everything would be infinitely malleable."

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