24 October 1977

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1977-10-24

Comments

• The date when Peel broadcast the Sex Pistols' début in its entirety in the last hour of his show, four days prior to its official release. Songs were played back to back with no links. Some were not recorded: these are marked §. Interestingly, JP seems to have played the tracks in a different order to the release, therefore the original position on the album is appended next to each for comparison.

Sessions

• Subway Sect, #1. Recorded 1977-10-17. Available on A Retrospective 1977-81 (Rough Trade).
• John Prine, one and only session (rpt). Recorded 1973-01-22. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

• File 2 begins
• Subway Sect: Chain Smoking (session) 2
• John calls the band the Suburban Studs 2
• File 2 ends
• File 3 begins
• Subway Sect: Parallel Lines (session)
• Clint Eastwood: Dont Go On Like A Holligan (7") Heavy Weight
• Devo: Jocko Homo (7" - Mongoloid) Booji Boy 7033-14
• edit
• Subway Sect: I Don't Split It (session)
• edit
• Subway Sect: Nobody's Scared (session)
• edit
• "as I have a little time on my hands"
• 999: No Pity (7" - Nasty, Nasty) United Artists UP 36299
• File 3 ends

• Sex Pistols: album - Never Mind The Bollocks Virgin V 2086

Not present on recording

1. 'Holidays In The Sun' § (A1)
   
2. 'Bodies' § (A2)
3. 'Pretty Vacant' § (B4)

File 1 starts here

1. 'Liar' (A4)
2. 'No Feelings' (A3)
3. 'Problems' (A6)
4. 'Seventeen' (B1)
5. 'Anarchy In The U.K.' § (B2) (clearly edited out)
6. 'New York' (B5)
7. 'E.M.I.' (B6)
8. 'Submission' (B3)
9. 'God Save The Queen' (A5)

(JP: 'And there you have it, the Sex Pistols' LP and as you can have heard if you were listening to the programme, all four singles are on it, but still an LP well worth having nevertheless. On tonight's programme you heard a session from the Subway Sect, tomorrow night it'll be the turn of the Only Ones and Steel Pulse, two good sessions from them, and Wednesday night's programme, in case you can't make tomorrow night's, is an all-record programme. Hope you'll be able to hear them both, though, and thanks very much for listening to this. Goodnight.')

• (midnight news with Robin Boyle: TUC leaders have told Dennis Healey what they hope to see in his mini-budget)

File

Name

• 1) John Peel 1977.10.24 Sex Pistols album
• 2) J P PM043.mp3
• 3) J P PM044.mp3

Length

• 1) 00:26:20
• 2) 1:35:19 (1:31:39-1:33:52)
• 3) 1:33:31 (45:48-1:04:31)

Other

• 1) Many thanks to Jim. Some watery recording of an epochal show.
• 2) Created from PM043 of the PM Tapes, digitised by Tim. Many thanks to Peter Mitchell for making the recordings.
• 3) Created from PM044 of the PM Tapes, digitised by Tim. Many thanks to Peter Mitchell for making the recordings.

Available

• 1) Mediafire
• 2,3) Mooo