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17 May 1978

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1978-05-17
Comments
  • Peel plays two tracks from two different Robert Johnson's, one is a rock pop artist and the other is a blues musician.
  • Peel mentions he will be going to Eton School tomorrow morning to give a speech to the pupils and is not looking forward to it.
  • Peel plays a track from Clayson And The Argonauts covering Wild Man Fischer's The Taster and then plays the original version.
  • Peel mentions getting a phone call from a band called the Undertones who are from Northern Ireland.
  • Also played according to Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions book was Warm Gun: Chinese Gangster (7" - Warm Gun) Isadora

Sessions[]

  • Lurkers #2. Recorded: 1978-04-18. First Broadcast: 24 April 1978

Tracklisting[]

(JP: 'Earlier in the day, well this afternoon, I got a phone call from a band called The Undertones, who wrote or phoned from Derry to tell me that Belfast is not the only place in Ulster where there are good bands and they're going to send me a tape and I already heard good things about the band, so I find about them in a week or so. For them, these are the Lurkers, a tune which Bo Diddley wrote called Pills')

File[]

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  • 1) John Peel including 17 May 1978.mp3
  • 2) J P PM080.mp3
Length
  • 1) 1:03:10 (from 24:39)
  • 2) 1:30:22 (1:00:31-1:23:36) (from 1:03:36 unique)
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