More on Festive 50 / best of shows 1977

[ken_garner]

JimmyStep is right, show of 28/12/77 was extracts of best of year's 
sessions. All the ones he mentions are on the PasB script - except 
the Vibrators. His memory appears pretty much bang on then, although 
Stranglers' Burning Up Time, Frankie Miller's Be Good To Yourself, 
and Elvis C's Red Shows appear to be played between Tabor's No Man's 
Land and Colosseum II's Lament. Motors' You Beat The Hell Out of Me 
ended the show. It's always possible running order was different on 
air, but unlikely (the PasB is normally typed up AFTER the show has 
been aired)

There had been another full two-hour show (10pm-midnight)of best of 
sessions of 77 show before Christmas, on Wed 21/12.

And so it's the shows in between where the Peel's personal F50 was 
aired, reaching No 1 on 27/12 - you missed it by one day, Jimmy!

See below, everyone, from the draft day by day index for the new 
book: does this help anyone's memory further? The only questions now 
are, which day did he start the countdown? Did he interrupt it with 
other non-F50 records? Did he always start the countdown after the 
concert tracks? or play some before them as well?


Th 22/12 (Thin Lizzy Concert, 1st TX 1/9/73)+ records
F 23/12 (Traffic Concert 1st TX 10/5/70) + records
M 26/12 (The Faces, 5th Concert, 1st TX 21/4/73) + records
T 27/12 (Stranglers, private tape) & Peel's personal 'Festive 50', 
Top 14 favourite records of 1977



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