29 May 1973

Show

 * Name
 * Top Gear


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1973-05-29

"”Decktician's notes suggest the BBC documentation here is correct - which I used for my item on p80 of THE PEEL SESSIONS: Peel did not tear up his script and play no records but Mike Oldfield's, and, comparing the total needletime in this shows to others it looks like he did just play side 1, not the whole album as the myth has it. My calculations suggest he could not have got in all 49' of the album AND these other records Decktician clearly heard. The total duration of all music played here, including side one of Tubular Bells, comes to just over 100', leaving about 18' for all of Peel's links between 23 tracks, which for the mid 70s sounds about right to me.”"
 * Comments
 * Tracklisting below is from Volume 3 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
 * The show is notable for the first play of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, although it appears that only the first side was played, rather than the whole LP. In a message to the Peel Mailing List, Ken commented:
 * It may also be noted that the Gong track was actually the first Peel played from the initial batch of Virgin LP releases.

Sessions

 * Amon Duul II #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1973-05-05.
 * Released on Manana (CD, 2000, Strange Fruit).
 * Jack The Lad #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1973-05-05.
 * No known commercial release.
 * Boys Of The Lough #2 First broadcast 13 March 1973. Recorded 1973-01-29.
 * No known official release.

Tracklisting

 * Don Nix: Black Cat Moan (LP – Hobos, Heroes And Street Corner Clowns) Enterprise
 * Amon Duul II: Manana (session)
 * Boys Of The Lough: Shetland Wedding March (session)
 * Faces: Around The Plynth (LP – The First Step) Warner Bros
 * Jack The Lad: Boilermaker Blues (session)
 * Gong: Radio Gnome Invisible (LP – Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1)) Virgin
 * Mott The Hoople: Drivin’ Sister (LP – Mott) CBS
 * Amon Duul II: Green Bubble Raincoated Man (session)
 * Country Joe & The Fish: Silver And Gold (LP – C.J. Fish) Vanguard
 * Boys Of The Lough: Wee Croppy Tailor / Boy In The Gap / McMahons’ Reel (session)
 * Jack The Lad: One More Dance (session)
 * Tangerine Dream: Circulation Of Events (LP – Atem) Ohr
 * Boys Of The Lough: Erin I Won’t Say Her Name / The Whinney Halls Of Leitrim / Joe Ryans Jig (session)
 * Amon Duul II: Dem Guten, Schonen Wahren (session)
 * Jack The Lad: Rose Lee (session)
 * Annette: Mister Piano Man (LP – Annette Funicello) Buena Vista
 * Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (LP – Tubular Bells) Virgin
 * Linda Jones: Your Precious Love (LP – Your Precious Love) Turbo
 * Amon Duul II: The Trap (session)
 * Boys Of The Lough: Flowers Of The Forest (session)
 * Jack The Lad: Draught Genius (session)

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