20 April 1977

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1977-04-20


 * Comments
 * Boxer.jpgon artist of the day, Boxer, had a controversial album cover, that some record shops refused to sell. The album attracted less attention for its music than for its cover art. Photographed by Alex Henderson with graphics by Richard Evans, the cover featured model Stephanie Marrian (real name, Stefanie Khan, born in Singapore, her mother was English and father Indian, she was the first page 3 girl in the Sun newspaper way back in 1970), spreadeagled and naked but for a pair of shoes, with a man's arm reaching up between her legs and his boxing-gloved hand hiding her genitalia.
 * Boxer back.jpg back cover at first showed Stephanie in complete full-frontal nudity, but later pressings covered her up with the band's belt-styled logo. The cover was completely re-designed for the US market using the band photo from the inside of the UK gatefold cover
 * An audio on YouTube from Boxer's Peel session featuring Peel's links was thought to come from this show, but there is some evidence it is not so, where JP says in the audio of the video:  'we are hoping to get back through our archives as it were, into the past of this programme and into the past of Top Gear to dig out two classic sessions and replay them for you and this is the first we have come up with, it's Boxer, according on October 7th 1975 and that's All The Time In The World.' 
 * A question was asked on the Peel Yahoo site, on where the audio came from. From the messages, it turns out that there is strong evidence of the show coming from this programme, where the Boxer session was repeated as one of the classic sessions along with a new one.

Sessions

 * Generation X #1. Recorded: 1977-04-12
 * Boxer, #1. Recorded 1975-10-07. First broadcast: 30 January 1976

Tracklisting

 * Boxer: All The Time In The World (session)
 * (JP: 'And now we have a little more time on the radio. In fact twice as much time you probably spotted. We're hoping to get back through our archives as it were, into the past of this programme and into the past of Top Gear to dig out two classic sessions and replay them for you and this is the first we have come up with, it's Boxer, according on October 7th 1975 and that's All The Time In The World')


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 * Boxer: California Calling (session)
 * (JP: 'And that's Cali-for-niya Calling from Boxer')


 * edit
 * (JP: '...Of course had one excellent LP released on Virgin, Below The Belt, and had recorded another one, which got as far as listed on the Virgin catalogue, but I don't think it ever got into the shops. The new band signed to CBS anyway, but Mike Patto is still lead vocalist, and also in the band are Chris Stainton on keyboards, Tim Bogert on bass, Adrian Fisher on lead guitar, and Ed Tuderi on drums. I'm if I pronounced your name wrong Ed')


 * edit
 * (JP: '...band's Shooting Star')


 * Boxer: Shooting Star (session)
 * (JP: '...I should one be well satisfied, that's the 1975 vintage Boxer, a very good year, and that's their Shooting Star, a Patto Halsall composition')


 * edit
 * (JP: '... The Eye')


 * Boxer: More Than Meets The Eye (session)

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