16 February 1969

Show

 * Name
 * Top Gear


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1969-02-16


 * Comments
 * Around 45 minutes of a Sunday afternoon Top Gear, with some medium wave whine towards the end.
 * JP mentions a concert on the previous evening with Tyrannosaurus Rex at Birmingham Town Hall, at which he had read poetry. This was part of the tour in which David Bowie was bottom of the bill, as a mime artist, an occurrence which Peel would often recall after Bowie had achieved fame. An advertisement for the tour in International Times 49, Jan. 31-Feb. 15, 1969, bills it as Tyrannosaurus Rex in concert ("For the lion and the unicorn/In the oak forests of faun") with "Vytas Serelis (sitar) and John Peel (catalyst)".(Bowie is not mentioned.) Other dates were Croydon Fairfield Hall (16 Feb.), Manchester Free Trade Hall (22), Bristol Colston Hall (23), Liverpool Philharmonic (1 March), Brighton Dome (8 March). The tour was "A Nems Enterprise".
 * The show features one of the few TG sessions by influential American groups of the era, in this case the San Francisco band Moby Grape. Peel comments that they didn't seem particularly interested in doing the session - a pity, he thinks, when so many British groups would love to get the chance to do one.

Sessions
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 * The Strawbs, Moby Grape, Bakerloo, Caravan

Tracklisting
News at 4.30
 * Locomotive: Mr. Armageddon (single) Harvest
 * The Strawbs: I'll Show You Where To Sleep (session)
 * B.B. King: It's My Own Fault (LP; B.B. King Live At The Regal) Stateside
 * Moby Grape: Truckin' Man (session)
 * Judy Collins: Story of Isaac (LP; Who Knows Where The Time Goes) Elektra (JP; "a song by Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen...")
 * Bakerloo: The Last Blues (session)
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex: Pewter Suitor (single) Regal Zonophone
 * Caravan: Green Bottles For Marjory (session)
 * Procol Harum: Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone) (LP; Shine On Brightly) Regal Zonophone
 * Chicken Shack: Get Like You Used To Be (LP: O.K. Ken?) Blue Horizon
 * Moby Grape: Ain't That A Shame (session)
 * Three Dog Night: Nobody (single) Stateside
 * Bakerloo: Driving Bachwards (session)
 * East of Eden: Northern Hemisphere (LP: Mercator Projected) Deram (JP lets the track run for a minute before noticing it's at the wrong speed, apologises to the listeners and to his producer Bernie Andrews - on holiday - before hurriedly making amends)

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