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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1978-02-01
Comments
  • Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre.
  • Peel plays a heavy metal tune from Judas Priest's Stained Class album which gained notoriety for its dark lyrics and themes, as well as a 1990 civil action trial where the band were accused of backmasking that led to the suicide attempts of two teenagers.
  • Peel plays three tracks from Hank Williams' 40 Greatest Hits compilation album and three tracks from the Guillotine compilation album.
  • Peel plays two tracks from the Groundhogs' Split album, originally issued in 1971, and a track from a new album by favourite of his youth Lonnie Donegan, produced by another British pop star of an earlier era, Adam Faith
  • June Tabor's session includes "Now I'm Easy" by Eric Bogle, who also composed Peel's favourite Tabor track, "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
  • A session by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad, formerly of Slapp Happy and Henry Cow. An album by the duo, Kew.Rhone[1]. was issued by Virgin Records in the following month.

Sessions[]

  • Greaves Blegvad #1, recorded 13th December 1977, repeat, first broadcast 10 January 1978. No known commercial release.
  • June Tabor #5, recorded 24th January 1978. 'The Overgate' available on On Air CD, 1998 (Strange Fruit SFRSCD074)

Tracklisting[]

File[]

Name
  • 1) 1978-02-01 Peel Show JS08
  • 2) John Peel 01 Feb 1978.mp3
  • 3) J P PM061.mp3
Length
  • 1) 28:32
  • 2) 46:10 (9:05-12:09, 20:06-35:14, 39:59-45:00 additional to file 1)
  • 3) 1:32:26 (to 15:23) (to 4:58, from 12:05 unique)
Other
  • 1) Many thanks to Jimmy. Created from JS08 of JS Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22.
  • 2) Many thanks to Tim for acquisition and digitisation
  • 3) Created from PM061 of the PM Tapes, digitised by Tim. Many thanks to Peter Mitchell for making the recordings.
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