1976 Festive 50

[John Bravin]

I'm listening to some of the older shows where Peel invited listeners to 
choose their selection of the best music they would pick as 
representative of the 10 years of the John Peel Show on Radio 1 - a kind 
of pre-Festive Fifty.  Regarding the comment on 1976 below (and bearing 
in mind the listener shows were broadcast in September before the punk 
explosion took off), he actually comments on the fact that "almost all 
of shows compiled by listeners ignore the years 1973-1976 which he 
describes as 'fallow years'".  Very perceptive given what happened a few 
months later.

I can remember the excitement generated when Bob Marley released his 
Live at The Lyceum album (actually in Dec 1975) but I didn't really hear 
it until 1976.  Although that wasn't Punk there was a feeling that it 
was breath of fresh air, and for a few months it was the hottest sound 
around. It certainly influenced Peel as he started playing some 
interesting non-pop reggae culminating in his championing of the Misty 
in Roots Live at the Countervision album four years later. And it 
certainly influenced some of the Punk movement.

John

dunelm61 wrote:
>
> Which is all fine and dandy except that (whisper it) nobody was
> actually listening to those records in 1976!
>
> 1976 can be summed up in three words which will strike fear into the
> heart of anyone of my age and in themselves are enough to explain why
> punk had to happen: Frampton Comes Alive.
>