1968

Peelenium

 * Broadcast
 * 04 November 1999


 * Playlist
 * Cream: Crossroads
 * Buffalo Springfield: Expecting To Fly
 * Bonzo Dog Band: The Canyons Of Your Mind
 * T Rex: Salamanda Palaganda


 * Events


 * March 3: Police raid Middle Earth club in Covent Garden, London. Peel, who DJs regularly at club, expresses sympathy in his IT column for victims of police harassment.


 * March 17: violent anti-Vietnam War demo in Grosvenor Square, London; Peel is present.


 * April 4: Martin Luther King shot dead in Memphis, sparking riots in major US towns and cities.


 * May: student revolt and workers' strikes in Paris threaten De Gaulle's government.


 * June 5: assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Peel pays tribute to him on Night Ride.


 * August 21-23: Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to crush Dubcek government's "Prague Spring".


 * October: First sextuplets born in UK.


 * November: Richard Nixon elected US President. Peel meets future wife Sheila ("Pig") while appearing on TV show "How It Is".


 * November 22: The Beatles release The Beatles, later known as the White Album.

Festive 50
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Notable Shows
First Peel Night Ride Night Ride with Lennon and Ono as studio guests
 * 06 March 1968
 * 11 December 1968

Links

 * (BBC) Peel Biography: 1968 - Night Ride
 * Frequency Finder: Radio 1 Schedules 1967-69
 * Wikipedia: 1968
 * Wikipedia: 1968 In Music
 * Marmalade Skies (1968): Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / June / July / Aug / Sept / Oct / Nov / Dec
 * List Of Shows

Shows available online

 * 04 February 1968 / 25 February 1968
 * 06 March 1968
 * 10 March 1968
 * 28 April 1968
 * 01 May 1968 / 08 May 1968
 * 09 June 1968 / 16 June 1968 / 23 June 1968 / 30 June 1968
 * 21 July 1968 / 24 July 1968
 * 11 August 1968
 * 27 October 1968
 * 03 November 1968 / 24 November 1968
 * 11 December 1968