Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73

[thebarguest]

I think the Maoist punk/new-wave exclusionism may have
affected JP in the late 70's, but I remember hearing "Tubular
Bells" for the first time as a 17-year-old in 1978 and being
"blown away", even though I was into punk/new-wave as well as
old stuff like BJH and Yes. Class will always out .......

Cheers,
Gerald Sinstadt



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> At 10:46 21/06/2007, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >One thing i do remember is the 25th Aniversary of TB in 1987 Mike 
> >Oldfield do a session version of TB truncated to 15-20 mins, with 
> >John Peel as MC in recognition of his
> >contribution to it's popularity, though the track (or rather 
> >Oldfield) was deemed to be 'too important' to be broadcast in 
Peel's 
> >late night spot and it went out in a staurday afternoon
> >show instead - possibly the resurected Johnny Walker show, Peel 
> >mentioned it and some of the history re him and TB on his own show 
> >at the time and was bemused by the whole
> >thing being moved to Walker's show (it might have even been used 
as 
> >part of the launch of Walker's afternoon show and the 'new R1 line 
> >up' - but i could be making that up).
> 
> Mathematics are a bit out here   25th anniversary of Tubular Bells 
> would be 1998
> Oldfield did do a session version for Nicky Campbell in 1989   (he 
> had the late night
> midweek spot then when Peel was at the weekend)
> By the late 80s I think you'd need a machine gun to make
> Peel play anything by Oldfield - times and tastes change
> 
> martinw
>