Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73

[grang354]

Point taken. But I was thinking more of the early R1 days (pre-1971) 
when he'd often say that he wished he had time to play the whole of an 
album, but could only play one track, as he only had 3 hours of 
programmes per week. And even on the Perfumed Garden, where he had 
plenty of time and lots of new music to enthuse over, he never - as far 
as I can remember, at least - played albums uninterrupted, from start 
to finish - with the possible exception of "Sgt. Pepper" when Radio 
London first got hold of a copy.

Colin

-- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> At 11:02 23/06/2007, you wrote:
> 
> >I'm not usually inclined to believe anything R. Branson says - but I
> >wonder if there's some truth in this? At first I thought it was
> >another version of the myth that JP in his early days "played albums
> >all the way through" if he liked them - he never did, of course, due
> >to needletime restrictions
> 
> 
> On the contrary  Needletime restrictions were exactly why he could
> do it.   'Reviewing new records' was one of the needletime exemptions
> (film soundtracks was another).   Playing large chunks of a new album
> (once only!) was quite common
> 
> martinw
>