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[dunelm61]

More pointers on the road to the 1977 Festive Fifty . . .

1. The source for the top 13 is Andy Smith's posting on the Rocklist 
website (hang your heads in shame, Messrs Wall and Heatley). Here he 
says "I had trouble tracking down that tape I told you about of John 
Peel's festive 50 from 1977. Well I have found it but it only has the 
top thirteen! Beter than nothing so here they are . . . Bit 
disappointing, I know but I thought there was another tape amongst the 
boxes, but there wasn't." Here, then, is someone who not only remembers 
there being a Festive Fifty in 1977, but actually taped it.

2. It is claimed (probably by the band themselves) that Some Chicken's 
New Religion held down the number 16 position in the chart.

3. A fiver says the Ramones' Pin Head, the Stranglers' London Lady (it 
mentions Liverpool!) and X-Ray Spex' Oh Bondage are all in there as 
well.