The last of five shows featuring the 1981 Festive Fifty chart. Currently, only the chart rundown part of the show is available.
Sessions
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Tracklisting
10: Clash: '(White Man In) Hammersmith Palais (7 inch)' (CBS)
JP: 'Don't forget, if you're one of the tens of people who'd like a copy of the Festive Fifty, if you send us a stamped addressed envelope, we'll send you one. Put a stamped addressed envelope in an envelope itself, of course, and write 'Sheena Easton' on it: that's what I invited you to write last year so that I could identify them from the other admiring letters that come from people all over the world, it must be said, into the programme. Write 'Sheena Easton' on your envelope: don't write it on the one that we've got to send back to you. That'd be pointless. And address the same to 'John Peel, BBC Radio One, London W1A 4WW: that would seem to get it. We'll send you a copy of the Festive Fifty, or more accurately, actually, the Festive Sixty. If I have time, I'll give you 51-60 at the end of the programme, if I can catch you.'
09: Dead Kennedys: 'Holiday In Cambodia (7 inch)' (Alternative Tentacles)
JP: 'What a pity that the Dead Kennedys don't make records as vigorous as that these days.'
JP: 'As close as anyone has come, in my view, to making the perfect single.' 'This next...by a very horrible irony indeed, most of the votes that I had from Poland, and there were about five or six of them, were for this.'
05: Joy Division: 'New Dawn Fades (LP-Unknown Pleasures)' (Factory)
JP: 'The B-side of that, incidentally, In A Lonely Place, was number 54, my old locker number at school. I'm sure you remember that'
03: Joy Division: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart (7 inch)' (Factory)
JP: 'If you were listening to Neil's programme earlier on, I emphasised there that the voting for the first two had been immensely close. I mean, two or three more votes for the second one would have made it number one, if you see what I mean.' (He then lists numbers 51-60, a record of which can be found on this page).
02: Sex Pistols: 'Anarchy In The U.K. (presumably from LP-Never Mind The Bollocks)' (Virgin)
JP: 'Number one for the last three years, and number two this. End of an era, or what? I don't know.'