holy grails

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Hi John,

Your talk of FF78 and pre-76 shows is extremely tantalizing. If you have the time, it would 
be brilliant if you could follow up FF79 by making these available too.

And of course any other vintage Peel shows you have lurking around in your treasure 
trove...

On the FF front, not sure if your "pre-Festive Fifty" is actually the holiest of holy grails -- 
what is generally counted as the very first F50, broadcast in 1976 (ties in with ten years of 
shows, from 1967).

Full listing here:
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/festive50lists.htm#1976

The Christmas 1977 special is also counted as a F50, although it actually thought that it 
was JP playing his own favorites, rather than the results of a reader poll, reflecting more 
closely the big changes in the musical landscape and the makeup of the show.

Like FF78, the above shows are complete legends in these parts and have never been 
available digitally as far as I know.

Yours in hope,

Steve W



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Bravin <john.bravin@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>