01 January 1980

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1980-01-01


 * Comments
 * The last of five shows featuring the 1979 Festive Fifty.
 * Mostly incomplete; however, most of the Festive Fifty songs are included on a compilation tape (see 1979 Festive Fifty).

Sessions

 * Repeats of 1979's best sessions, including:
 * The Beat (originally transmitted 05 November 1979 )
 * Capital Letters (originally transmitted 24 January 1979 )
 * Leyton Buzzards (originally transmitted 27 June 1979 )
 * Lene Lovich (originally transmitted 10 December 1979 )
 * The Police (originally transmitted 30 July 1979 )
 * The Ruts (originally transmitted 29 January 1979 )

Tracklisting
Session tracks unknown.

These were presumably all played. #9 - 3 & 2 - 1 are featured on a compilation; as such, this part of the rundown is almost complete.  The Damned: "New Rose" [single version] (7" single, 1977) Stiff Records 31:32 Public Image Ltd.: "Public Image" (Public Image, 1978) Virgin Records 34:46 Stiff Little Fingers: "Suspect Device" [single version] (7" single, 1978) Rough Trade / Rigid Digits 37:44 The Special A.K.A.: "Gangsters" (7" single, 1979) 2 Tone 41:03 Stiff Little Fingers: "Alternative Ulster" (Inflammable Material, 1979) Rough Trade 44:05 The Clash: "Complete Control" (7" single, 1977) CBS 47:55 The Jam: "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" [single version] (7" single, 1978) Polydor 52:12 The Clash: "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" (7" single, 1978) CBS  Followed by top 20 countdown, edited out of compilation.  56:35 The Undertones: "Teenage Kicks" (7" single, 1978) Sire
 * 1979 Festive Fifty
 * "Listen, if I'd fixed it it would have been #1. Instead, and I'm sure you've probably worked this out for yourselves, at #1 and with twice as many votes I must say as "Teenage Kicks", this again..."

59:19 Sex Pistols: "Anarchy in the UK" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records 


 * 62:58 [closing music] Grinderswitch: "Pickin' the Blues" (Macon Tracks) Capricorn Records
 * 63:46 [end of recording]