29 December 1980

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1980-12-29


 * Comments
 * Fourth of five shows featuring the 1980 Festive Fifty.
 * Only the Festive Fifty rundown is currently available.

Sessions

 * Adam and the Ants, Killing Joke, Icarus, the Beat and the Passions

Tracklisting
1980 Festive Fifty:  57:59 [countdown] 59:19 Joy Division: "New Dawn Fades" [part] (Unknown Pleasures, 1979) Factory The Ruts: "In a Rut" (7" single, 1978) People Unite 00:00 The Cure: "A Forest" [album version] [part] (Seventeen Seconds, 1980) Fiction 04:51 The Undertones: "Get Over You" (The Undertones, 1979) Sire 07:36 Stiff Little Fingers: "Johnny Was" (Inflammable Material, 1979) Rough Trade  Advert for Radio One Talkabout, 18:30, 30 December 1980  16:44 The Clash: "Complete Control" (7" single, 1977) CBS 20:01 Joy Division: "Decades" (Closer, 1980) Factory 26:03 The Jam: "Going Underground" (7" single, 1980) Polydor 29:11 Sex Pistols: "Holidays in the Sun" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records
 * "At #18 in 1978 and #14 in 1979 and #12 this year, and possibly giving some impetus to my theory - which I think I hold alone, actually - that this may be ultimately the most durable of the four classic Pistols singles."

32:34 Public Image Ltd.: "Public Image" (Public Image, 1978) Virgin Records 


 * 35:24 [closing music] Grinderswitch: "Pickin' the Blues" (Macon Tracks) Capricorn Records