1976 Festive Fifty

As far as anyone know, no broadcast copy of the 1976 festive fifty exists. The list below was obtained from the Godlike genius of a webiste that is rocklist. Although confirmation is required as to whether this was a listener's poll, it is clearly a list representative of the listenership dating back to Peel's time on pirate radio, the same people who were about to be alienated by punk.

John Peel's Festive Fifty 1976
1 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 2 Derek & the Dominoes - Layla 3 Bob Dylan - Desolation Row 4 Pink Floyd - Echoes 5 Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower 6 Free - Alright Now 7 Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses Don't They? 8 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond 9 Beatles - A Day In The Life 10 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone 11 Poco - Rose of Cimarron 12 Neil Young - Cortez the killer 13 Rolling Stones - Brown sugar 14 Beatles - Hey Jude 15 Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralysed 16 Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo chile 17 Beatles - Strawberry fields forever 18 Captain Beefheart - Big eyed beans from Venus 19 Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love 20 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird 21 Van Morrison - Madame George 22 Doors - Riders on the storm 23 Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna 24 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 25 Deep Purple - Child in time 26 Little Feat - Long distance love 27 Grinderswitch - Pickin' the blues 28 Joe Walsh - Rocky mountain way 29 Who - Won't get fooled again 30 Misunderstood - I can take you to the sun 31 Genesis - Supper's ready 32 Bob Marley and the Wailers - No woman, no cry 33 Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner 34 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 35 Jackson Browne - Late for the sky 36 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir 37 Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe 38 Allman Brothers band - Jessica 39 Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack flash 40 Grateful Dead - Dark Star 41 Richard Thompson - I wanna see the bright lights 42 Family - The weaver's answer 43 Jackson Browne - Fountain of sorrow 44 Bob Dylan - Hurricane 45 Doors - Light my fire 46 Matching Mole - O Caroline 47 Roy Harper - When an old cricketer leaves the crease 48 Wild Man Fischer - Go to Rhino records 49 Little Feat - Willin' 50 Yes - And you and I

If anyone has a copy of this on old 70s vintage C90s, please contact one of the Peel bloggers as this is considered the holy grail of Peel tapes.