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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1984-04-03
Comments
  • Start of show: "You know I came in early this morning to the BBC to try and catch up all the mail last week and I was sitting in the office, the sun came up gazing fondly at the bags of cards and letters that were piled high all over the place, they still love me I thought, the little people out there, you know, they really care, then I open it all up and it was for Mark Ellen, there's no loyalty you know."
  • Peel mentions he was disappointed that Die Toten Hosen's Bommerlunder record did not make it to the 1983 Festive Fifty and then plays a hip hop version of the band's alternative name, Increadible T.H. Scratchers, called the Hip-Hop Bommi-Bop.
  • Peel chats to David Jensen, where Jensen countsdown the UK Top 40 singles chart on Peel's show to show him what is in the charts.
  • Peel mentions taking photos of the Pig with road signs next to her.
  • Peel mentions his holiday in Portugal last week and recommends people to visit there.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

(JP: 'Life will be intolerable without reggae music')
(JP: 'Chart bound sound')
(JP: 'Anything but lack lustre')

Tracks marked # are available on File 3.

File[]

Name
  • 1) 020A-B2413XXXXXXX-0100A0.mp3
  • 2) 020A-B2413XXXXXXX-0100A0[1].mp3
  • 3) John Peel 1984-04-03 gw.mp3
Length
  • 1) 0:58:31
  • 2) 1:00:47
  • 3) 0:22:09
Other
  • 1-2) Recordings at the British Library
  • 3) File comes from the first show from a haul of 1500 mixed edited radio show tapes, purchased from a Scottish collector by Peel Mailing List member Haze.
Available