Simon Joyner - "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll"

[Colin Ellis]

He didn't play "Pepper" in full on the final PG - just little groups of tracks scattered throughout the five & a half hours. This is when he first played it:
 
http://radiolondon.co.uk/rl/scrap60/fabforty/sgtpepper/sgtp.html
 
The interesting thing about Peel on the PG is that he didn't fit the stereotype of the hippy DJ who'd say "yeah, man this is a really groovy album" & then disappear for 40 minutes. Usually he'd play individual tracks (occasionally a sequence of 2 or 3, or long passages from the Mothers' "Absolutely Free")  & talk in his personal way between them. This may have been a result of his training in US commercial radio - underground FM radio was only just emerging over there in summer '67. As Martin says, playing albums in full came later.....
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