[peel] Re: JP plays Duran Duran...really

[colin bray]

Like several people on here I've listened to 1980 and 1981 shows which in short order played U2, Simple Minds, Spandau Ballet, OMD, The Thompson Twins and others I've forgotten. It seems that the 1980s don't really start until the very tail end of 1980. Up till the autumn Peel is playing music that would comfortably sit in 1979 then all these soon-to-be-successful bands pop up all at the same time and we feel like we're in 1982.

 

I loved listening to these shows, they reminded me again how John was always there first.

 

Colin.
 


To: peel@yahoogroups.com
From: M.Luetchford@btopenworld.com
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:43:34 +0000
Subject: Re: [peel] Re: JP plays Duran Duran...really









Just read your blog steve and see you confirm the Wham story - how about Spandau Ballet and Culture Club (he played them too) - presume someone somewhere has put together a list of significant discoveries. 
 
By the way does anyone know if it is true that Adam Ant was in Bazooka Joe who the Pistols supported at Chelsea Art College in their first ever gig. If so he was at the birth of punk. Ant Music was good and still worth a listen - the double drumming was important. However I remember an NME A-Z Guide to Punk Rock produced in 78/79 which had the early punk Adam as a listing with the quip - just goes to show that the art of fooling some of the people all of the time is dead and consigned him to the dustbin of failure. Just two or so years later the dandy highwayman filled our world and no one saw the irony ... the commoditisation of pop was back with the standard carried by someone who was at the birth of punck





From: MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 3 July, 2009 10:27:40 PM
Subject: Re: [peel] Re: JP plays Duran Duran...really





I'm pleased to have cleared this up. I used to also have a recording of Peel playing Planet Earth and saying very complimentary things about that too - I too think it was a great song. Tape was a C120 and chewed up. On the same tape I also had Peel playing Wham!'s Wham Rap ... and saying how great that was and I agree. Am I really the only person with tapes from this era?
 
Mark





From: thebarguest <thebarguest@ yahoo.co. uk>
To: peel@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Friday, 3 July, 2009 9:40:53 PM
Subject: [peel] Re: JP plays Duran Duran...really



Thanks - great to be able to relive my yoof !

The 'Original Mirrors' (awful name) actually included the singer out of the great "Deaf School" (too lazy to google his name) who later became a record company mogul (cf Feargal Sharkey) ........

Tommy Vance played a Duran song on a 1981 show and said he loved it.
Their first album is quite new-wavey I think - I liked 'Planet Earth' and quite liked 'Girls on Film'.

Peely also played a (very) early Def Leppard track. Sadly, both Duran and the Leps desparately sought dollars soon after .......

Regrads,
Rob Monkhouse

--- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "Steve" <so_it_goes_ 2512@...> wrote:
>
> Fellow Peelites
> 
> If any of you saw my last post on johnpeel.net, you may remember that it was a moot point when Peel played Duran Duran, or indeed if. Here's the proof.
> 
> Mixtape: John Peel - Altered Images 81
> Sessions: Altered Images, Red Beat, Blank Students, Josef K, Wah! Heat
> Wiki page and link: http://peel. wikia.com/ wiki/John_ Peel_-_Altered_ Images_81
> 
> Page is a little skeletal at the moment, will flesh it out later.
> 
> Best wishes
> Steve [TK]
>











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