Talk:11 December 1979

The Madness track caused be a touch of confusion the other day when I was filling in the artists page. The song was released on the "Work, Rest & Play EP" - ie, "Night Boat To Cairo" single, which came out in April 1980. Peel says, "that's number 10 if you must know." At the time that this show went out (11 Dec 1979), Madness were coincidentally in the Top 40... at number 10 (!) with "One Step Beyond" (chart). The b-side to that single though was "Mistakes". So, it's fair to assume that the last three tracks on this recording ARE from a few months later. Madness were at number 10 in the singles chart released on 26 April 1980 (chart) which could date those tracks to the Peel show from 28/29/30 April or 1 May 1980.

Dr Mango