16 March 1969

Show

 * Name
 * Top Gear


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1969-03-16


 * Comments
 * Peel mentions seeing Deep Purple perform in Newcastle.
 * Peel plays a session track from Fleetwood Mac covering Emile Ford & The Checkmates' You'll Never Know What You're Missing Until You Try.

Sessions

 * Fleetwood Mac #6, recorded 10th March 1969. Available on on Live At The BBC (2xCD, Castle, 1995).
 * Edgar Broughton Band #1, recorded 27th January 1969. 2 tracks on Demons At The Beeb CD, 2000 (Hux Records, Hux020).
 * Moby Grape only session, recorded 4th February, repeat, first broadcast 16 February 1969. No known commercial release.
 * Strawbs #1, recorded 10th December 1969, repeat, first broadcast 12 January 1969. Tracks available on Live At The BBC Vol One In Session CD, 2010 (Universal 532 050-7) and Strawbs CD, 2008 re-issue (A&M Records 5302679)
 * Nice #6, recorded 4th March 1969. Only Top Gear Theme broadcast tonight, with rest of session first broadcast on 20 April 1969. Available on BBC Sessions Castle CMFCD 457

Tracklisting

 * Deep Purple: Emmaretta (7") Parlophone
 * Fleetwood Mac: You'll Never Know What You're Missing Until You Try (session)
 * (JP:'...Top Gear Theme. And this is to  Tony with thanks, from 7 million of us. Bye Bye')
 * (JP:'...Top Gear Theme. And this is to  Tony with thanks, from 7 million of us. Bye Bye')


 * Nice: Top Gear Theme (session)

File

 * Name
 * 1) J P Top Gear 16 March 1969 complete.mp3
 * 2) The Nice - Peel session - Top Gear 20/4/69
 * Length
 * 1) 1:59:38
 * 2) 15:10 (to 2:12)


 * Other
 * 1) Many thanks to Tim
 * 2) Many thanks to Colin Harper


 * Available
 * 1) Mooo
 * 2) Youtube