1968

Peelenium

Broadcast

• 04 November 1999

Playlist

• Cream: Crossroads
• Buffalo Springfield: Expecting To Fly
• Bonzo Dog Band: The Canyons Of Your Mind
• T Rex: Salamanda Palaganda

Events

• March 3: Police raid Middle Earth club in Covent Garden, London. Peel, who DJs regularly at club, expresses sympathy in his IT column for victims of police harassment .

• March 17: violent anti-Vietnam War demo in Grosvenor Square, London; Peel is present.

• April 4: Martin Luther King shot dead in Memphis, sparking riots in major US towns and cities.

• May: student revolt and workers' strikes in Paris threaten De Gaulle's government.

• June 5: assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Peel pays tribute to him on Night Ride.

• August 21-23: Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to crush Dubcek government's "Prague Spring".

• October: First sextuplets born in UK.

• November: Richard Nixon elected US President. Peel meets future wife Sheila ("Pig") while appearing on TV show "How It Is".

• November 22: The Beatles release The Beatles, later known as the White Album.

Festive 50

n/a

Notable Shows

First Peel Night Ride

• 06 March 1968

Night Ride with Lennon and Ono as studio guests

• 11 December 1968

See Also

• Top Gear
• Night Ride
• Gigography 1968
• Melody Maker: 1968

Links

• (BBC) Peel Biography: 1968 - Night Ride
• Frequency Finder: Radio 1 Schedules 1967-69
• Wikipedia: 1968
• Wikipedia: 1968 In Music
• Marmalade Skies (1968): Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / June / July / Aug / Sept / Oct / Nov / Dec
• List Of Shows

Shows calendar

Shows available online

• 07 January 1968 / 14 January 1968 / 21 January 1968 / 28 January 1968
• 04 February 1968 / 18 February 1968 / 25 February 1968
• 06 March 1968 / 10 March 1968 / 17 March 1968 / 24 March 1968 / 31 March 1968
• 07 April 1968 / 28 April 1968
• 01 May 1968 / 08 May 1968 / 19 May 1968 / 22 May 1968 / 26 May 1968 / 29 May 1968
• 05 June 1968 / 09 June 1968 / 12 June 1968 / 16 June 1968 / 23 June 1968 / 30 June 1968
• 07 July 1968 / 10 July 1968 / 14 July 1968 / 21 July 1968 / 24 July 1968 / 28 July 1968
• 04 August 1968 / 07 August 1968 / 11 August 1968 / 14 August 1968 / 18 August 1968 / 21 August 1968 / 25 August 1968 / 28 August 1968
• 08 September 1968 / 11 September 1968 / 18 September 1968 / 22 September 1968 / 25 September 1968 / 29 September 1968
• 09 October 1968 / 13 October 1968 / 27 October 1968 / 30 October 1968
• 03 November 1968 / 10 November 1968 / 17 November 1968 / 20 November 1968 / 24 November 1968
• 08 December 1968 / 11 December 1968 / 22 December 1968
• Bonzo Sessions / Pentangle First Session / John Renbourn Terry Cox Session / Fairport Convention 3rd Session / Nice 1967 1968 / Roy Harper 1968 1969