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UPDATE: As the change is now in force for some users, I have switched the navigation to the simplified one for the new system. Please check Navigation in the Help section if you can't find things. I also initially made small adjustments to the front page layout, but have now reverted to the old look until all users are on the new system.

COUNTDOWN: Just a reminder for people still using Monaco that the final switch to the new skin is due on Nov. 3. After that, it will no longer be offered as an option. Sorry. Nothing to do with me.

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John Peel Wiki

Check it Out was a youth-oriented television series produced twice weekly by Tyne Tees Television for ITV from 1979 to 1982. It presented a mix of rock music performances and segments dealing with social issues including homelessness and homosexuality. The show was notorious for an appearance by the band Public Image Limited, in which John Lydon became angry at the interviewer's questions and walked out of the studio.

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Peel appeared in one episode of the programme in 1980 where he's been interviewed in a pub about going to small venues and also seeing the Toy Dolls perform at a gig in the north east of England.

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The Toy Dolls - She Goes To Finos (Check It Out 1980)

Peel is interviewed at 3:19 of the video