17 August 1976

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1976-08-17


 * Comments
 * Seventh of ten shows in a retrospective series featuring The Who, Family, Roxy Music Fairport Convention, Rolling Stones, Cream, Soft Machine, Faces, Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin, Beatles, broadcast while Peel was on holiday over the two weeks between 09 August 1976 and 20 August 1976. This one featured Soft Machine and related artists.
 * Only around half of the one-hour show has been shared, from the Retrospective Shows August 1976 mixtape.

Sessions

 * Soft Machine retrospective

Tracklisting

 * Soft Machine: Love Makes Sweet Music (single) Polydor
 * Daevid Allen & Euterpe: Children Of The New World (LP - Good Morning) Virgin
 * Soft Machine: Pig (LP – Volume Two) ABC
 * Soft Machine: Joy Of A Toy (LP – The Soft Machine) ABC
 * Kevin Ayers: Joy Of A Toy Continued (LP – Joy Of A Toy) Harvest
 * Soft Machine: Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album (for B.O.) (LP – Six) Columbia
 * Soft Machine: The Man Who Waved At Trains (LP – Bundles) Harvest
 * Matching Mole: O Caroline (LP – Matching Mole) CBS
 * Robert Wyatt: Soup Song (LP – Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard) Virgin
 * Robert Wyatt: I'm A Believer (single) Virgin
 * (JP: Robert Wyatt doing the seemingly impossible and making Neil Diamond acceptable to the sensitive man, and woman too, I shouldn't wonder ...)

File

 * Name
 * Retrospective Shows August 1976
 * Length
 * 1.05.37 (to 29.09)


 * Other
 * Many thanks to Colin and Eddie!


 * Available
 * Retrospective Shows August 1976