Few folk really deserve that epithet, legendary, but Peel was one of them.

Teenage Kicks will never sound the same again.

By way of a tribute, here’s John making a complete hash of things, as only he could, one night in the early Nineties (2.6MB MP3).

I don’t much like it when people turn the death of a public figure into their own personal trauma, but since Foot has been a part of my political life for as long as I’ve had a political life, I don’t mind saying I had a lump in my throat when I heard the news.

They don’t seem make them like that any more, sadly.

Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Foot, by Eddie Mair, first broadcast in April, 2000 on BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House, in which he speaks with typical good humour on the subject of his own mortality: Foot.mp3.

And here are some obituaries and tributes. The Telegraph’s is among the best; a sign that fellow travellers and sworn enemies alike held him in high regard.

• Paul Foot, radical columnist and campaigner, dies at 66 (The Guardian)
• Paul Foot: The finest campaigning journalist of his generation (The Guardian)
• Paul Foot (The Telegraph)
• Paul Foot: Death of a Mirror Campaigner (The Mirror)
• Paul Foot, campaigning journalist and socialist to the end, dies aged 66 (The Independent)