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in: 1983, Peel shows, British Library

15 November 1983

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1983-11-15
Comments
  • Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre.
  • The British Library file finishes just before Peel introduces The Smiths track.
  • Peel claims he knows more people in Germany and the Netherlands than in London.
  • Peel explains in the lyrics of Eton Crop's 'Gay Boys On The Battlefield' that a certain amount of the war dead were bound to be homosexuals, which society generally doesn't accept. 
  • Peel explains that there is greater music outside the British-American axis.
  • Peel hopes to meet Die Zwei when he goes to Berlin next month for the Atonal music festival.
  • Peel can't find a copy of the Cocteau Twins, which he was going to play.
  • Peel mentions that he doesn't have any tattoos after a listener claims that she saw his tattoos at his roadshow.
  • Peel is delighted that the Smiths have entered the latest BBC Charts at number 32 with 'This Charming Man'.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

(JP: 'What an extraordinary name to give yourself')
(JP: 'Whatever became of them')
(JP: 'This is number 32 in the new BBC charts and how gratifying it to see that and the band featured on the front of Sounds, the Smiths of course and this is for Scott')

File[]

Name
  • 020A-B0735XXXXXXX-0100A0.mp3
  • 020A-B0735XXXXXXX-0101A0.mp3
Length
  • 1:01:32
  • 0:24:42
Other
Available
Footnotes
  1. ↑ The track peaked at number 25 in the UK Singles Chart in 1983. A re-issued peaked at number 8 in 1992.
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