John Peel Presents Top Gear


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 * BBC


 * Release date
 * 1969


 * Format
 * LP


 * Comments
 * This compilation LP of Top Gear session tracks from artists without record deals, recorded Aug-Oct 1969, can be seen as a companion to the John Peel's Archive Things album, also released on BBC Records, featuring items from Peel's other Radio One show of the era, Night Ride.
 * Peel himself features both at the start of the record, in a spoken monologue with voice treated and electronic effects by Brian Hodgson and Deilia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and at the end of the second side, playing the Top Gear theme tune on jew's harp.
 * The front cover shows Peel and then-girlfriend Sheila together, pictured from below knee height, in sneakers and bare feet, respectively.

Tracklisting

 * Side One
 * John Peel: John Peel's Voice (effects treated by Brian Hodgson, Delia Derbyshire)
 * Sweet Marriage: Mort
 * Bridget St John: The River
 * Ron Geesin: Agitation in Anticipation of Offspring Part "W"
 * Bridget St John: Song to Keep You Company
 * Welfare State / White Noise: Silence Is Requested in the Ultimate Abyss
 * Side Two
 * Bridget St John: Night in the City
 * Sweet Marriage: Titania 4:20
 * Ron Geesin: Agitation in Anticipation of Offspring Part "X"
 * Bridget St John: Lazarus
 * Ron Geesin: Agitation in Anticipation of Offspring Part "Y"
 * John Peel: Top Gear Signature Tune

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