Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1977-05-17
- Comments
- File 1 containing half of the Wyatt session and a first play for a track that would make the 1977 Festive Fifty.
- File 2 is a very short file containing a couple of links and a few seconds of tracks either side.
- File 6 is continuous from its start to end.
Sessions[]
- Generation X, #1 (rpt). Recorded 1977-04-12. Available on Radio 1 Sessions (Strange Fruit).
- Robert Wyatt, #2 (rpt). Recorded 1974-09-10. Available on The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit).
Tracklisting[]
- It is not known whether the Sex Pistols track is from this show, as it was also played on 16 May 1977
- Sex Pistols: God Save The Queen (7") Virgin 2 (very end only)
- JP: 'It has to be said that the Sex Pistols are a great rock band too, hate to meet them mind you, but a great rock band 2
- File 6 begins
- Steve Miller Band: Jet Airliner (7") Mercury 6078 811
- Generation X: Youth Youth Youth (session) very end also only on File 2
- JP "Yoot, Yoot, Yoot"
- Brand X: Disco Suicide (LP - Moroccan Roll) Charisma very start also on 2
- Peter Tosh with Words, Sounds & Power: African (7") Virgin VS 179
- File 3 begins
- JP "this is well over the top..."
- Elizabeth Archer And The Equators: Feel Like Making Love (Version) (7") Lightning #
- Robert Wyatt: I’m A Believer (session) #
- Stranglers: Go Buddy Go (7" - Peaches / Go Buddy Go) United Artists #
- Sandy Denny: Take Me Away (LP - Rendezvous) Island
- John Greaves / Peter Blegvad / Lisa Herman: Pipeline (LP - Kew. Rhone.) Virgin
- Chantays: Pipeline (LP - Pipeline) London # @
- File 3 ends after track above
- Generation X: Listen (session) # @
- Robert Wyatt: 'Alifib' (Peel Session)' 1
- (JP: 'And if Robert and Alfie are listening anywhere, we've been trying to phone you.') 1
- Radiators From Space: Television Screen (7") Chiswick S10 # @
- Steve Winwood: Time Is Running Out (12") Island (end also on %)
- JP link between these 2 tracks %
- Generation X: Day By Day (session) # (start and end also on %)
- link between these 2 tracks %
- (JP: 'Oh best of the new bands as I said at the beginning of the programme... and that's the last from them') %
- Queen: Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy # (start and last 20s also on %)
- (JP: 'Ends suddenly that if you're not paying attention, it can easily catch you out, little too mannered for my own personal taste, but bound to sell exceedingly well I must admit ... this on the other hand is the last from Robert Wyatt') %
- Robert Wyatt: 'Sea Song' (Peel Session) 1
- (JP: 'Well, if that had been a 78, you could have said that it was cracked, but it wasn't....It would be nice to get him to come in and do some new stuff one of these days too.') 1
- (...John Ayes, as it were, or a group called the Jayes. That sounds very silly, but I've seen it written both ways on record, so it could be either, and frankly I have no idea which it is. It also features Ranking Trevor. Ranking Trevor, an excellent man in every way, doesn't come into the record until it's about three minutes and forty-three seconds old, but when he does come in, it's marvellous, and this is a great record anyway.') [1] 1 %
- Jays & Ranking Trevor: 'Truly (12")' (Disco Mix) # ( @ end only) (% start only) 1
- File 6 ends
- Tracks marked # tracklisted, and @ available on File 4
- Links and snips of tracks marked % available on File 5
File[]
- Name
- 1) John Peel 1977.05.17 Robert Wyatt - Ranking Trevor
- 2) John Peel Show 1977
- 3) John Peel 17 May 1977
- 4) J P PM008.mp3
- 5) BBC Radio One - John Peel - 1982 & 247m MW 1977.mp3
- 6) 17 May 77 Wyatt, GenX.mp3
- Length
- 1) 00:18:04
- 2) 00:00:30
- 3) 00:23:36
- 4) 1:32:12 (38:14-46:21, 58:08-58:52)
- 5) 5:38 (0:58-4:55)
- 6) 1:21:25
- Other
- 1) Many thanks to Jim.
- 2) Many thanks to Christian Riou
- 3) Many thanks to Tim for acquisition and digitisation
- 4) Created from PM008 of the PM Tapes, digitised by Tim. Many thanks to Peter Mitchell for making the recordings.
- 5) Thanks to Julian Watson. John Peel's Mixtape
- 6) From SilverE25
- Available
- Footnotes