UK Albums Chart Number Ones: live...at last!
Just posted the UK Albums Chart Number Ones page, after so much blood. sweat and (almost) tears. I started compiling it some time in December, hoping to have it up and out there before Christmas, as a fitting closer to the year. Having completed my text file, procrastination set in (as usual), hoping to think it over and maybe find the time perfect it over the Christmas holidays.
Come Boxing Day I was ready to look through it all again but..behold! My carefully prepared rtf file is completely empty! All data and information gone, just like all the mince pies you were hoping to savour after all the festivities had died down. WTF!??! I still don't know what happened but now I've learned my lesson and, at least for larger projects, back-ups will…
May 2024
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post here (6.5 years??), so thought I'd do one as it's been quite a busy month on this Wiki.
- 1 Songs about places/Namecheck songs
- 2 UK No.1s cover versions
- 3 Pages created/planned
- 4 Elsewhere....
Was really pleased that both these lists/pages have been established, many thanks to those who started it all and continue to contribute. Always been fascinated by lists of songs (and I'm obviously not the only one), and what better place to make them than this veritable goldmine of often weird and wonderful song titles about weird and wonderful people and places! It takes up quite a lot of time, searching through the various pages, but it's always satisfying that you find one that hasn't been posted yet, and all in a…
Black History Month: Celebrating Reggae
This year, Fandom celebrates Black History Month (1-28 Feb) through the theme of "Creation and Cultivation: Culture Shifting Moments in Entertainment".[1] This post aims to highlight the outsize influence of reggae on the development of popular music across the world, following the global breakthrough of Bob Marley in the mid-1970s.
Originally from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, reggae's impact transcended musical genres and national borders:
- Dance music: dub reggae producers and engineers such as Lee Perry and King Tubby pioneered the use of the studio as an instrument for remixing and effects, with the 12" single format encouraging experimentation, opening up pathways for later dance figures such as Andrew Weatherall, as well as cross-cultu…
Wanted Session Artists A-Z
Further to my previous Forum/Discussion thread on "wanted session artists" pages, discontinued as it's difficult to easily check the still wanted pages without "empty" red links after recent site changes, wanted to post a list showing the current state of play. Blue links show pages that are already up, red ones that they are still wanted.
I'm slowly working my way through (in rough alphabetical order), with wanted session artists defined as those who did three or more sessions but still have no page on this site. Three seemed like a good cutoff point to me, suggesting Peel had above interest in the artist.
All help is much appreciated, including on new pages for the "Links To Peel" section. When creating new pages, help with session details…
R1 Vintage
Started writing a page for Radio 1 Vintage: general introduction, links to Peel, ---->
MemberD (talk) 07:51, October 19, 2017 (UTC)
50+
Greetings chums. Well after creating over 50 new pages, including 49 artists and a few others, I'll have to give it a bit of a break now to concentarte on other things (I work freelance). I will be checking in and no doubt contributing here and there occasionally, but thanks in the meantime to those who have helped me over the last few months or so with suggestions, corrections, tweakings etc.
Keep it Peel, kids.
23 March 1983 (TOTP)
This page seems to be have omitted from the list of Top Of The Pops (Appearances) so would need to be created. I can't watch the BBC Four repeat myself (available here) but the acts/songs featured were as follows:
JoBoxers – “Boxerbeat” (21)
David Bowie – “Let’s Dance” (5) (video)
Orange Juice – “Rip It Up” (9)
Leo Sayer – “Orchard Road” (27) (clip from his TV series)
Jonathan King – US chart rundown:
After The Fire – “Der Kommissar” (video clip)
Frida – “I Know There’s Something Going On” (video clip)
Golden Earring – “Twilight Zone” (video clip)
Styx – “Mr Roboto” (video clip)
Michael Jackson – “Billie Jean” (video clip)
Big Country – “Fields Of Fire (400 Miles)” (31)
Nick Heyward – “Whistle Down The Wind” (26)
Altered Images – “Don’t Talk To Me A…
Revillos
It basically took me the best part of the last two hours to create the page for The Revillos. I'd nearly completed it (as well as two sessions they had several 'other plays' between 1979-1981) but then something happened with the editor and I lost the whole lot! Sh*t! Very disappointing - is there no way I can recover my work? Isn't there a 'sandbox' systme on this wiki, like on Wikipedia? Extremely p*ssed off.
10:20, February 28, 2017 (UTC)MemberD (talk)
Mystery Record In John Peel's Record Box
On John Peel's Record Box at number 27 is a single by Dreamland Express called Groovy / U.F.O. who are supposed to be signed to EMI Records. After googling the name, I couldn't find anything about the artist called Dreamland Express or the single, which is surprising when they are supposed to be signed to a major record label like EMI. Does anyone know about this artist?
John Peel's Foreign Languages
John Peel on his shows sometimes had unidentified foreign language speakers before a track was played. The ones I've discovered are:
19 October 1989: Swahili
07 February 1990: Russian
04 July 1992: Punjabi
28 November 1992: Scottish Gaelic
I also remembered several shows, where unidentified speakers of Japanese and Dutch were spoken, but I can't remember the dates. Does anyone else know any other foreign languages that they've heard where unidentified speakers speak on Peel's show before a track was played.