[peel] Status Quo

[Stefan Cooke]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Martin Wheatley wrote:

> I think he now genuinely likes some of their old records
> Probably he always did but they moved into the 'pop' area
> of Radio 1

I was at the Reading Festival in 1978, which John MC'd. 
Status Quo was headlining on Saturday, following Spirit, who 
put on a spellbinding set (and I was there for all the punk 
bands). I was (and am) a huge Peel fan, but the way he 
urged the crowd to stop shouting for more from Spirit so 
that the Quo could play a longer set was surprising.

I also went to a couple of Peel Roadshows in the Cambridge 
area at around the same time, and he would always play 
Status Quo.

Stefan