Peel On Record Cover Sleevenotes

(Related pages: Peel On Record, Peel On Record Covers)


 * “The lot of the part-time sleeve not writer is not, haunters of the demi-mode, an easy one. Bravura flourishes of imagined “style”, gruesome lapses into tweeness, and overconfident predictions of impending greatness, the latter often stimulated by a commissioner’s cheque, have a disquieting habit of slithering into view in secondhand shops and/or your local branch of Woolworths.” (John Peel, Street To Street: A Liverpool Album Vol 1, sleevenotes)


 * "One of those lessons I learned too late, actually, not to write sleeve notes for records, because they do tend to come back and haunt you." (JP, 06 January 1995)

The following list is drawn up largely from the AllMusic John Peel 'Credits' page. Other sources are indicated with numbered or other links. Checks are only at a preliminary stage, so there may be mistakes. Please add further information if known.


 * 1967
 * Deviants: 	Ptooff!
 * JP: “On this LP there is little that is not good, much that is excellent and the occasional flash of brilliance“ ... read more


 * 1968
 * Various: Select Elektra
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex: My People Were Fair And Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars
 * Pentangle: Pentangle
 * "I snap up all copies of the first pentangle LP I see, so that as few people as possible can taunt me over my ‘… Pentangular faithful squatting swollen-eyed and morning-mouthed, outside garish Wilson-Picketted shop windows.’ Kinda cute, huh?" (John Peel, Street To Street: A Liverpool Album Vol 1, sleevenotes)
 * Skip Bifferty Skip Bifferty
 * JP: “[Skip Bifferty] were much featured on the programmes I did at the end of the 1960s, Top Gear … and when they put out their only LP, I wrote the sleeve notes, and I was reading them again the other day, and pompous and self-serving they were too. My goodness me! I'm glad you can't read them.” (06 January 1995)


 * 1969
 * Clark-Hutchinson: A=MH2
 * (JP: "Do you remember people climbing on the scaffolding inside the Alexander Palace during the 24 Hour Technicolour Dream?” ... read more
 * Forest: Forest
 * Velvett Fogg: Velvet Fogg
 * Woody Kern: The Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk
 * JP: “What about this from ‘The Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk’, the first LP from Derby band Woody Kern (1969): ‘I think you’ll like what you hear … watch out for further recorded offerings’. People didn’t – and I have a recurring vision of some gaunt figure sitting on a rock in the Peak District still watching out for the further offerings that never came.” (Street To Street: A Liverpool Album Vol 1, sleevenotes)


 * 1970
 * Various: John Peel's Archive Things
 * Pentangle: Cruel Sister


 * 1971
 * JSD Band: JSD Band
 * Moonkyte: Count Me Out


 * 1972
 * Stackwaddy Stack Waddy/Bugger Off!


 * 1973
 * JSD Band: Travelling Days


 * 1975
 * Various: Chess Golden Decade Sampler
 * online review: “The liner notes on the sampler album are by John Peel and are particularly funny, informative and full of his joy for music.”
 * JP: “Crammed with the usual specious stuff about schoolgirls, Biggles and football … those notes were deeply and desperately overwritten.” (Street To Street: A Liverpool Album Vol 1, sleevenotes)

1980
 * Various: Street To Street: A Liverpool Album Vol 1
 * ”Big In Japan, a quixotic cornerstone (that’s not going to look good in ten years’ time, I’m afraid)” ... read more


 * 1995
 * Thin Lizzy: Peel Sessions


 * 1996
 * Fall: Light User Syndrome


 * 2001
 * Martin Carthy: Carthy Chronicles: A Journey Through the Folk Revival
 * 2002
 * Bonzo Dog Band Complete BBC Recordings


 * 2003
 * Altered Images: Destiny: The Hits
 * Electric Light Orchestra: ELO II/The Lost Planet
 * Moondogs: John Peel Sessions
 * Fall: Live at the Phoenix Festival 95-96


 * 2004
 * Brinsley Schwarz: Cruel to Be Kind
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex: For the Lion and the Unicorn in the Oak Forests of Faun