Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1978-12-26
- Comments
- First of four long-lost shows featuring the 1978 Festive Fifty.
- Peel has been "looking forward to this programme for many weeks".
- "Four or five times as many people voted" this year as in the 1976 Festive Fifty.
- The tracklisting is also available at John Peel Papers. Many thanks to the uploader to John Peel Papers at Facebook for sharing the information. Scan (misdated)
Sessions[]
- None
Tracklisting[]
- Grinderswitch: Pickin' the Blues (LP - Macon Tracks) Capricorn (#27 in 1976)
- Misunderstood: I Can Take You To The Sun (7" single) Fontana (#30 in 1976) @
- Who: Won't Get Fooled Again (LP- Who's Next) Track (#29 in 1976)
- (The A Touch of Moon programmes are being repeated at 18:30 on 26th - 29th December 1978.)
- Little Feat: Long Distance Love (LP - The Last Record Album) Warner Bros. (#26 in 1976)
- Doors: Riders On The Storm (LP - L.A. Woman) Elektra (#22 in 1976)
- Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (7" single) Parlophone (#17 in 1976)
- Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar (LP - Sticky Fingers) Rolling Stones (#13 in 1976)
- Poco: Rose Of Cimarron (LP - Rose of Cimarron) ABC (#11 in 1976) @
- (JP: 'Boasts one of the great guitar solos of all time.')
- Free: All Right Now (LP - Fire and Water) Island (#6 in 1976) @
- Jimi Hendrix Experience: All Along The Watchtower (JP - Electric Ladyland) Polydor (#5 in 1976)
- Derek & The Dominos: Layla (LP - Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs]) Polydor (#2 in 1976)
- Led Zeppelin: Stairway To Heaven (LP - IV) Atlantic (#1 in 1976)
- (JP counts down the 1976 Festive Fifty Top 10 for comparison.)
- 50: Siouxsie & The Banshees, Metal Postcard (Mittageisen) (LP - The Scream) Polydor
- (JP: 'This year's #1 scored 4½ times as many points as Stairway To Heaven had in 1976.')
- 49: Thin Lizzy, Emerald (LP - Live And Dangerous) Warner
- 48: Neil Young, Like A Hurricane (LP - American Stars 'n Bars) Reprise @
- 47: Flying Lizards, Summertime Blues (7" single) Virgin
- 46: Bob Dylan, Desolation Row (LP - Highway 61 Revisited) Columbia (#3 in 1976) @
- 45: Sex Pistols, EMI (LP - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols) Virgin @
- 44: Jam, In the City (LP - In The City) Polydor @
- 43 Siouxsie & The Banshees, Jigsaw Feeling (LP - The Scream) Polydor @
- 42: Siouxsie & The Banshees, Mirage (LP - The Scream) Polydor @
- 41: Siouxsie & The Banshees, Switch (LP - The Scream) Polydor @
- Files marked @ available on File 2
File[]
- Name
- 1) 1978-12-26 John Peel BBC Radio 1
- 2) 1978-12-26 John Peel Radio 1 (incomplete) DB040+DB037.mp3
- Length
- 1) 01:59:56
- 2) 00:54:02
- Other
- 1) Shared via Peel Mailing List. Many thanks to Bill! 168,665 kB; 192 kbps
- 2) Created from DB040 and DB037 of Derby Box, digitised by RF
- Available