[peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73

[Martin Wheatley]

At 09:54 24/06/2007, you wrote:

>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.

The restriction there was that he had more records to play
than he time to play them  (when was that any different!)
Even up to the late 70s he was occasionally playing whole
sides of albums - I remember one by Elvis Costello

>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

One tends to forget that Perfumed Garden wasn't on for that long
and it took him a while to realise that no one from the station was
listening and he could get away with doing what he wanted
It was a commercial station with rules and Kenny Everett was
famously fired for playing the whole Of Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Through his career Peel has always been careful not to take too
many risks with his employers - that's why he survived at Radio 1
when people like Andy Kershaw didn't. He was always too insecure about
his position

martinw