[peel] Status Quo

[Kybosh]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:18:13 +0000 (UTC), Stefan Cooke 
<scooke@...> wrote:

>
> 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.

I thought he'd gone off them when they agreed to play apartheid South 
Africa but either I'm mistaken or he'd forgived or forgotten about that - 
I know I had till I read something recently that reminded me.

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Kybosh