My PEEL SESSIONS book is coming soon...

[Ed Duffy]

Great news, Ken. Looking forward to it and I hope it does well for you.

Eddie.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends of the John Peel Show
>  
> Seeing as this group and so many individuals who belong to it helped 
> me by contributing to my research for my book (and the group, if not 
> all of you individually, gets a big up in my Acknowledgements), I 
> thought you might like to know that we now have copies back from the 
> printers and THE PEEL SESSIONS should be in the shops for 4 October. 
> The designer EstuaryEnglish, editor Steve Tribe and editorial 
> director Mathew Clayton have done a great job: it looks great. 
> Although we ran out of time for some of our more ambitious design 
> montage ideas (and, sadly, some of my last minute tiny corrections 
> and session-release details, but that's the way these things go, hey-
> ho), the designer has nevertheless come up with a classy look 
> throughout both parts of the book, and one just perfect idea for the 
> contents page and chapter headings which long time listeners I am 
> sure will appreciate. About the content itself I leave that for 
> others to judge. There's the possibility around Peel Day (Thurs 11th 
> October) of some media coverage (digital radio stations, podcasts, 
> papers) though I'd better not go into too much detail because some of 
> it is bound not to come off if I do! It occurs to me though that not 
> all of you will have a clear idea of what's in it - that is, on top 
> of the nine chapters telling the story from the recollections of 
> producers, engineers, bands, listeners, and Peel himself - so I've 
> pasted the back cover blurb below which summarises the attractions 
> inside, after the big puff (which I wrote myself, in hustle mode, I 
> admit). The cover price is 19.99 sterling, but as a thanks to those 
> involved or have a serious interest (ie. you lot), Random House have 
> come up with a 50%-off promotion if you buy it via their web bookshop 
> www.rbooks.co.uk between 24th September and 24th October, by simply 
> quoting the promotional code PeelDeal when prompted. The 50% off 
> actually applies to anything you put in your basket from their list, 
> they tell me. This might make it an even more attractive offer than 
> the 9.99 currently being quoted at amazon.co.uk - blimey! The 
> publisher tells me this suggests they expect to shift quite a few 
> copies. Anyway, that's enough hard sell for now - forgive the 
> promotion, but I suspect several of you might be interested - and I 
> shall stand by for your corrections winging my way by late October,
>  
> Ken
>  
>  
> THE PEEL SESSIONS: A Story Of Teenage Dreams And One Man's Love Of 
> New Music
> by Ken Garner
> BBC Books, an imprint of Random House
> Published 4 October 2007
> ISBN: 978-1-8460-7282-6
> 19.99 sterling
> 352pp (192pp illustrated in colour; 160pp mono matt paper)
>  
> THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE JOHN PEEL SHOW
> Once upon a time there was a lonely public schoolboy whose dream was 
> to play the music he liked to other people on the radio. And when he 
> got his Radio 1 show, John Peel helped thousands of young bands to 
> realise their dreams too, inviting them to BBC Maida Vale Studios to 
> record 4 songs in an afternoon, for broadcast later. Every new band's 
> dream was to do one of these "Peel Sessions". Some became stars 
> (Pulp), others disappeared (The Would-Be's). Teenagers tuned-in, 
> taped, listened again, and again. Some would drift away, only to 
> rediscover the show years later, or find their children listening-in. 
> Peel's love of new music kept his dreams young and that's why 
> listeners loved him. The astonishing story of the Peel Sessions is a 
> story of teenage dreams, for teenagers of all ages.
> 
>  
> 
> INCLUDES
> 
> * Complete A-Z Sessionography of all 4400 Peel Sessions, listing 
> bands, tracks, dates, line-ups and recording details (108pp, 2 column 
> layout)
> 
> * Day-by-Day diary of every Peel show, 1967-2004 (32pp, 3 column 
> layout)
> 
> * The Festive Fifties (7pp, layout in 3 columns)
> 
> * The Peelenium (5pp, layout in 3 columns)
> 
> * Classic Sessions (there are 25 of them, I think)
> 
> * First Heard Here (12 of these, quite small boxes)
> 
> * One Session Wonders (24 of these)
> 
> * Listeners' Memories (12)
> 
> * Ten Who Didn't Do A Peel Session, Actually
> 
> * Ten Who Really Did, Honest
> 
>  
> ... and for the obsessives, I have also included a few stats: The Top 
> 20 bands or individuals who did the most sessions; The Top 10 longest 
> intervals between sessions by an act (I wonder if listers can guess 
> or spot these? Or indeed if I've missed someone!); the 25 or so 
> sessions I "missed" or "left out" of IST from the years 67-92, all 
> now in at last... There are also feature boxes in the sessionography 
> on the 3 acts/people who did the most sessions, namely The Fall, 
> David Gedge, Ivor Cutler.
>  
> ~
> 
> PS. Has anyone else been reading Tony Blackburn's POPTASTIC! MY LIFE 
> IN RADIO? It's an unintentional scream. Pick any paragraph at random 
> and try and read it out loud in a serious voice without bursting out 
> laughing. He's not a bad chap. Some of what he says (not the bits 
> about Peel) is fair enough, and some of his old record of the week 
> choices, with almost 40 years' hindsight, are impressive. But the way 
> he says it all, trying to sound serious, is just hilarious. As for 
> the picture captions...
>