Final Perfumed Garden Revisited

Background
"'We are going to play all the records that have made us happy in the Perfumed Garden and all the records we have enjoyed, which is a lot of records. And I hope you can stay until 5.30 because it’s a long night, but we got an awful lot to do, an awful lot of very beautiful things to hear, and an awful lot of beautiful people to get to know a little bit better.' (14 August 1967)" "'I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I'd had a list from a Mike Price of all of the records, in fact he just cut it out of a magazine, of all of the records that I'd played on the very final night of the Perfumed Garden programme that I used to do on the pirate ship Radio London back in 1967, and I said that over a period of time, I'd work me way through the tracks and play them to you, because obviously most of them will be records that you've never heard, but which were quite important in my life at one stage. The first couple of tracks that I played were a couple of tracks from Sergeant Pepper, and you obviously know that off by heart, so there's not a lot of point in my playing that.Well, perhaps you wouldn't know it, but at the same time I thought it would be better to play some of the less well-known tracks.' (22 January 2002 show.)"
 * John's last Perfumed Garden show on Radio London was a marathon five and a half hours long, in the course of which he played a total of 94 tracks. The following day, the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act came into force, and all the offshore pirate radio stations (with the exception of Radio Caroline, which moved to a new base off Holland) were closed down. Peel joined Radio One and made his first broadcast on Top Gear on Sunday 01 October 1967: his association with the station would continue until his fianl show on 14 October 2004.
 * Over 34 years later, he would revisit the playlist for this show.
 * Therefore, what follows is a list of the tracks in this strand of his 2002 shows where Peel carried this out, with his comments on the music, and a note of the tracks that he did not play from the original show.

Final Perfumed Garden Revisited: Track Listing

 * 01: Beatles, 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (LP-Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)' (Parlophone) (unplayed)
 * 02: Beatles, 'With A Little Help From My Friends (LP-Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)' (Parlophone) (unplayed)
 * 03: Attack, 'Any More Than I Do (7 inch-B side of Hi Ho Silver Lining)' (Decca) (22 January 2002)
 * (JP: 'The guitar playing at the beginning of this, which was by a man called Davy O'List, I used to use for kind of trails and promos for the programmes that I did...It's one of those great mysteries in my life, actually, because I do occasionally play that: some of you will have heard me play that before. But I don't know whether it was intended as a prize for a listener to Radio London, but written on the white paper sleeve that the record has been in ever since it first was released is the name Georgina Whitney, and I have no idea who Georgina Whitney is, or why her name is written on this. It's not even in my handwriting, so I think I probably stole this record out of the Radio London office. But I did the right thing, and Georgina, if you're listening or any of your descendants are listening, I apologise, but I think it's more important that I have it. That's the kind of selfish attitude that I have.")


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