Contents
Peelenium
- Broadcast
- 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
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Notable Shows
First Peel Night Ride
Night Ride with Lennon and Ono as studio guests
See Also
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
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Shows available online
- 07 January 1968 / 14 January 1968 / 21 January 1968 / 28 January 1968
- 04 February 1968 / 11 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 / 05 May 1968 / 08 May 1968 / 12 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 / 26 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
- 06 October 1968 / 09 October 1968 / 13 October 1968 / 27 October 1968 / 30 October 1968
- 03 November 1968 / 10 November 1968 / 13 November 1968 / 17 November 1968 / 20 November 1968 / 24 November 1968
- 01 December 1968 / 08 December 1968 / 11 December 1968 / 18 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 / Adrian Mitchell Night Ride mid 1968 / Night Ride 1968 The Lady King / Night Ride 1968 Alan Jackson / Night Ride 1968 Koerner, Ray & Glover / Donovan Top Gear 1968 / Donovan Top Gear 1968 (2) / Joni Mitchell Song To A Seagull / Beefheart 1968 / February 1968 / Fever Tree Top Gear 1968 / Penny Nichols Top Gear 1968 / Country Joe & The Fish Top Gear 1968 / Gordon Lightfoot Top Gear 1968 / Idle Race Top Gear 1968 / Colonel Bogey Night Ride 1968 / Night Ride Poets Mix / Meg Aikman and Nat Schaffer / Probably Gordon Smith / Gordon Smith 1968
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