05 September 1974

Show

 * Name
 * Top Gear


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1974-09-05


 * Comments
 * To date, the only extant recording of Peel in an otherwise 'lost' year (the only year in which no recording of a Peel show has yet come to light is now 1972).
 * This was kindly supplied by Yahoo Peel Newsgroup user thebarguest, who commented, 'I recently acquired this 56 min recording which I think some of you may be interested in. It's good quality FM mono and to my knowledge the only 1974 Peel recording in 'circulation' .....There's a weird, brilliant record by Robert Wyatt, featuring Mike Oldfield and Ivor Cutler ! There's some great Irish folk by Na Fili,some blues from Neil Young and Peter Hammill's earnest crooning.'
 * The Peel Sessions (Garner. K., BBC Books, 2007) notes that the PasB for this programme was missing at the time of publication, and that session repeats were 'unknown'.

Sessions

 * Peaches, #1. Recorded 1974-08-29. No known commercial release.
 * Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1974-07-25. No known commercial release. Drummer Pete Thomas went on to play with Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe was also a member at one time.
 * Na Fili, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1974-07-13. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

 * Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers, 'Streets Of Baltimore' (Peel Session) (last few seconds of this)
 * Na Fili: 'Slip Jigs And Reel' (Peel Session)
 * Robert Wyatt: 'Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road (LP-Rock Bottom)' (Virgin)
 * (JP: 'I heard that Ivor Cutler has signed with Virgin, and is recording an LP which should be released sometime before Christmas. They didn't ask me to produce it, but, I mean, you know, you learn to ride and live with the disappointments.')
 * Betty Davis: 'If I'm In Luck, I Might Get Picked Up (LP-Betty Davis)' (Just Sunshine)
 * (JP asks Bridget St. John, who appears to be sitting behind him, to give him the sleeve to this back)
 * Peaches: 'B For Charlie' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'As you may know, in a sense, I'm a bit of a loony, in that I sit down and listen to each and every record that I'm sent through the post, each and every record I buy, time all the tracks, listen to everything on it.')
 * Michael D'Abo: 'Handbags And Gladrags (LP-Broken Rainbows)' (A&M)
 * Na Fili: 'Polkas' (Peel Session)
 * Neil Young: 'Vampire Blues (LP-On The Beach)' (Reprise) (JP: 'His best LP since his second.)
 * Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers: 'Fiddle Diddle' (Peel Session)
 * Peter Hammill: '(No More) The Sub-Mariner (LP-In Camera)' (Charisma)
 * Booker T And The MGs: 'Plum Nellie (LP-Soul Dressing)' (Stax/Atlantic)
 * (JP mentions that the next record after the news will be by the Sadistic Mika Band)
 * (11 o' clock news: PM Harold Wilson calls a General Election)

File

 * Name
 * Peel - Top Gear 740905
 * Length
 * 00:56:33


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