Here we have another Radio Broadcast from the Late and Legendary D.J. John Peel with a recording of ‘The John peel Show’ which was First broadcast on Tuesday the 26th of December, 1978 from the famous BBC Studios in Maida Vale, London.
This broadcast was kindly uploaded by the legendary YouTuber ‘Creative Flow’ to whom we are eternally grateful to for their thoughtfulness in sharing this gem.
The John Peel Show – 26th of December, 1978
Tracks;
- Misunderstood – I Can Take You To The Sun
- Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
- Little Feat – Long Distance Love
- Doors – Riders On The Storm
- Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
- Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
- Poco – Rose Of Cimarron
- Free – All Right Now
- Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower
- Derek & The Dominos – Layla
- Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
- Siouxsie & The Banshees – Metal Postcard
- Thin Lizzy – Emerald
- Neil Young – Like A Hurricane
- Flying Lizards – Summertime Blues
- Bob Dylan -Desolation Row
- Sex Pistols – EMI
- The Jam – In The City
- Siouxsie & The Banshees -Jigsaw Feeling
- Siouxsie & The Banshees – Mirage
- Siouxsie & The Banshees – Switch
The John Peel Show
John Peel was a well known D.J in the United Kingdom who had become a household name by the time he died in 2004. He started off on the Pirate Radio Ship ‘Radio Caroline’ in the 1960’s, but soon ended up broadcasting on the BBC. His time with the beeb was spent mainly DJing. However, he did make a few TV appearances as a presenter, the most famous of which being Top of the Pops which he presented between 1978 and 1985. But this wasn’t for him really and he soon went back to his Radio Show.
However, although his show was broadcast on Radio One which is generally pretty crappy, his show was top quality. Unlike most other Radio One DJs, he never interrupted the music. The rest of them would talk over the track but John peel would deliberately wait til the song had finished completely before saying a word because he knew many listeners would be at home recording tracks from the show on cassette tape.
Champion of the Underdog
However, I think one of the greatest things about this show was that Peely would always try promote little unheard bands. Many groups would send their music demos in to John Peel in the hope of being aired. But unfortunately he wasn’t able to play them all, although he did bring a quite a lot of bands into the limelight.
But although he’d try play as many as he could, he only had a few hours a week airtime but the Demos were coming flooding in. When he died, he had a whole Barn on the farm he bought, stacked full of unheard demos from rising bands all over the world. However, his family have started trying to release some of this material. Although, It will take a few lifetimes to play them all. But at least some are getting aired. The spirit of Peely lives on. Many modern Radio DJs and shows have adopted the same approach.
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