Late December 1979

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1979-12-27


 * Comments
 * The fourth of five shows featuring the 1979 Festive Fifty.
 * Mostly incomplete; however, most of the Festive Fifty songs are included on compilation tapes (see 1979 Festive Fifty).

Sessions

 * Repeats of the year's best sessions, including:
 * Buzzcocks (originally transmitted 28 May 1979 )
 * Magazine (originally transmitted 14 May 1979 )
 * The Merton Parkas (originally transmitted 20 August 1979 )
 * The Selecter (originally transmitted 22 October 1979 )
 * Siouxsie and the Banshees (originally transmitted 16 April 1979 )
 * U.K. Subs (originally transmitted 28 June 1979 )

Tracklisting
Session tracks unknown.

These were presumably all played. #20, 19 - 16 & 14 - 11 are featured on compilations (all times from the second tape); as such, this part of the rundown is almost complete.
 * 1979 Festive Fifty

 The Only Ones: "Another Girl, Another Planet" (The Only Ones, 1978) Columbia 00:05 The Jam: "The Eton Rifles" [single version] (7" single, 1979) Polydor 03:45 Stiff Little Fingers: "Wasted Life" [single version] ("Suspect Device" 7" single, 1978) Rough Trade / Rigid Digits
 * "Wasn't sure which version of it you were voting for but I chose that one myself, the Rigid Digits one [...] and incidentally, I shall have a Finnish version of that for you sometime next week, which I think you might find quite intriguing."

07:20 Magazine: "Shot by Both Sides" (Real Life, 1978) Virgin Records [version unconfirmed] 11:29 Sex Pistols: "Pretty Vacant" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records [incomplete - 5 second gap in middle] Stiff Little Fingers: "Johnny Was" (Inflammable Material, 1979) Rough Trade
 * 14:58 "Now this next movement, as it were, supports a theory of mine that I've held for some time."

15:09 Sex Pistols: "Holidays in the Sun" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records
 * "My theory is, you see, that say in about five year's time, people will regard that as having been the best of the first four Pistols singles and the fact that it's gone from #18 to #14 indicates that I may be actually right or partially right anyway in this belief [...] And don't forget that "Pretty Vacant" went down from #16, er, from #6 to #16, this goes down from #3 to #13."

19:08 Sex Pistols: "God Save the Queen" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records 22:50 The Undertones: "Get Over You" (7" single, 1979) Sire 25:40 The Ruts: "In a Rut" (7" single, 1978) People Unite 


 * 29:25 [closing music] Grinderswitch: "Pickin' the Blues" (Macon Tracks) Capricorn Records
 * 30:51 [midnight news]
 * 31:21 [end of recording]