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14 December 1985 (BFBS)

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1985-12-14
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Sessions[]

  • None

Tracklisting[]

"John Peel's Music on BFBS, and this is our merry yuletide programme, made particularly earlying by the fact there are no, yes - no, go on, count 'em, Christmas records, and this includes the Jesus And Mary Chain, of course."
(JP: 'Well now this next is for Robbie, who wanted a lot of information. He wanted to know about the Crippled Pilgrims and the Blue Orchids. I was going to send him some information about all of this, but I think I probably failed to do so. And he also wanted to know why I haven't played the new Peter and The Test Tube Babies record. The main reason for that is, I don't think it's very good: frankly, it's awful, to be honest. He also wanted to know whether New Order are going to be touring in Germany next year. Well, I've been phoning their information office in London, and people who've tried to get in touch with them in the past will be able to confirm this, it is not easy to ascertain anything about the current activities of New Order, so I've failed in this respect as well. But he did want me to play something for himself and LW, Oliver and Hupsy. So, hope this'll do.')
By way of introduction to the next track John mentions that he read in this week's Sounds that he'd been voted the world's 3rd ugliest man.
(JP: 'Any band who has the nerve to work a variant on the terrible Mary Had A Little Lamb joke into one of their songs is alright with me.')
(JP: 'Dunno what you're laughing about. You ought to be out looking for the people who stole my records.') [1]$
(JP: 'Flake off, eh? How do you do that, I wonder?')
(JP: 'There are very few things in life, besides seeing Ron Atkinson in despair, that give me greater pleasure than a well-twanged guitar.') [2]

File[]

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  • John Peel's Music - 1985-12-14.mp3
Length
  • 00:57:00
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  • Many thanks to Eddie Berlin.
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  1. ↑ A reference to the fact that the band are Dutch: Peel's car was burgled while he was in Amsterdam. See 16 August 1990
  2. ↑ Atkinson was at the time manager of Manchester United, who were competing with Liverpool for top place in the First Division: in the event, Liverpool went on to win the league championship and FA Cup double, leaving Manchester placed fourth.
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