05 December 1970

Show

 * Name
 * Top Gear


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1970-12-05


 * Comments
 * The first hour of a Saturday afternoon Top Gear
 * Peel says that "On Monday and Tuesday I had to sit down and listen to 72 LPs - it was gruesome...". He expresses his scepticism regarding what had become known as "progressive rock", saying that successful "progressive" bands "don't progress at all" and follow a simple formula. He follows these comments by playing a complex track by Frank Zappa.
 * A reaction against the dominance of "progressive" rock is evident in the simple, US-inspired country-rock of Cochise and session guests Brinsley Schwarz.

Sessions

 * Family
 * Mr. Fox
 * Brinsley Schwarz

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

Tracklisting

 * Cochise: Love's Made A Fool Of You (single) Liberty (JP; "I think Buddy (Holly) would've been quite proud of that")
 * Delivery: We Were Satisfied (LP: Fool's Meeting) B & C (JP: "I wonder what's happening up at Anfield?...")
 * Brinsley Schwarz: Seymour I Love You/Funk Angel (session)
 * Keef Hartley Band: Roundabout (Part 1) (single) Decca
 * Family: Hole in the Compass (session)
 * Frank Zappa: Transylvanian Boogie (LP: Chunga's Revenge) Bizarre/Reprise
 * 3.30 News (main story; unions strike against the Industrial Relations Act)
 * Van Morrison: Domino (single) Warner Bros.
 * Mr. Fox: Mr. Trill's Song
 * The Reverend Ether, the Power and the Glory: 1862 B.P. (single) Atlantic (Obscure, possibly unreleased import which, Peel tells us, he hunted down after it was "reviewed ecstatically in Rolling Stone")
 * Family: Good News, Bad News (session)
 * Bridget St. John: If You've Got Money (single) Dandelion
 * Mr. Fox: The Gay Goshawk (session)

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