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  • 1987-02-18
Comments
  • Peel gives out the results of a readers poll from Sounds magazine:
  • Favourite Person Category: #1 Bob Geldof, #2 Wayne Hussey, #3 Morrissey ('who also interestingly comes 8th in the tyrant section of the poll'), #4 Cliff Burton ('and none of us here in the studio have the slightest idea who Cliff Burton is')[1], #5 Terry Waite, #6 Fish of Marillion, #7 John Peel ('well it's little old me'), #8 Kenny Dalglish ('the greatest footballer in the world of course'), and down at #10 Siouxsie of Siouxsie & The Banshees ('the only woman whose rated amongst the persons')
  • After the Japanese group, Shonen Knife's song got played, Peel says the only Japanese phrase he knows is Domo Arigato (どうもありがとう), which means 'Thanks A Lot'.
  • Peel plays several tracks from the Sounds Of Now! compilation album.
  • Peel plays the only British artist on the show from Chumbawamba, describing it as 'no culture colonialism here'.

Tracklisting[]

File []

Name
  • Peel On Bremen 4 [Stückwerk] - 1987-02-18.mp3
Length
  • 00:46:24
Other
  • Thanks to Eddie Berlin!
Available
Footnotes
  1. Cliff Burton was the bass player of Metallica, who died in 1986 in a tour bus accident in Sweden.
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