11 December 1968

Show

 * Name
 * Night Ride


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1968-12-11


 * Comments
 * John Lennon and Yoko Ono were studio guests. Their Two Virgins LP had just been released and they had spent the day before the show recording Rock & Roll Circus with the Rolling Stones and others.
 * Usual Peel segment was extended to allow a few minutes with Lennon and Ono. Also gave an opportunity to play another track of the John Martyn & Harold McNair session.
 * Poet Christopher Logue also live in studio.
 * Show was rebroadcast in 2005 by BBC as part of Lennon Day memorial programming. See the BBC official page, including streamed extracts, here - "two great legends John Peel and John Lennon talking together in 1968".

Sessions
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
 * John Martyn & Harold McNair
 * Jacqui McShee & John Renbourn
 * Christopher Logue

Tracklisting
(John Peel intro) (Chat With Lennon) (Chat With Lennon #2) (Chat/Introduces Two Virgins) (Chat With Lennon & Christopher Logue) (Chat With Lennon & Ono #2) (John Peel Introduces Azerbaijani Music) (Introduces Papa George Lightfoot) (Introduces Christopher Logue) (Chat With Lennon & Ono #3) (Chat With Lennon & Ono #4, includes It's Now Or Never by sung by Lennon, with JP humming along) (Introduces John Lennon Poem) (Yoko Poem, Film Chat, Wrap)
 * John Martyn & Harold McNair: Different From The Book (Peel session)
 * The Deviants: You've Got To Hold On
 * Jacqui McShee & John Renbourn: Watch The Stars (Peel session)
 * John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Two Virgins (Extract)
 * Christopher Logue: He Was Very Good Looking (poem)
 * John Martyn & Harold McNair: Jelly Roll Baker Blues [The Easy Blues] (Peel sessioin)
 * John Peel, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Christopher Logue: Alchemical Wedding
 * Czech Philharmonic Orchestra [Dvorak]: Slavonic Dance nr 1 in C
 * Yoko Ono: John My Love (demo)
 * Jacqui McShee & John Renbourn: Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes (Peel session)
 * BBC Archive: Azerbaijani Music
 * Papa George Lightfoot: Wine, Women And Whisky
 * Christopher Logue: Why? (poem)
 * John Martyn & Harold McNair: Dusty
 * Lonnie Donegan: Wabash Cannonball
 * Jacqui McShee & John Renbourn: Every Night When The Sun Goes Down
 * Traffic: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
 * John Lennon: Charles (poem)
 * John Martyn & Harold McNair: Hello Train
 * Spike Jones & His City Slickers: Sheik Of Araby

File

 * Name
 * Length
 * A bit more than an hour


 * Other
 * The version of the show available online is divided into a series of mp3 tracks


 * Available
 * Various sources, including John Peel Torrent Compilation 17 of 17 (Various)