John Peel and Tangerine Dream

[ken garner]

of course Tangerine Dream did two private tape sessions for Peel in 74, but he was certainly playing their records the year before, and probably earlier - didn't ALpha Centauri come out in 71? Now, as some of you know, I have the full running orders for Top Gear for those years, but I am not proposing to read all the way through them in the hope of alighting on a track or two - I simply do not have the time, but I'll do some random sampling. The scripts are microfilm printouts  from when I did IST back in 92-93, and not easily made digitally searchable without rekeying. Give me - or the Wiki team? - a few months to come up with something!

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ajking106" <ajking106@...> wrote:
>
> Cheers Martin, yeah I know I own the letter that John wrote to the group
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinwheatley@> wrote:
> >
> > At 12:41 14/03/2009, you wrote:
> > 
> > >Has anyone got any accurate dates for when John Peel played 
> > >Tangerine Dream on Top Gear?
> > >
> > >Some of the dates I've seen are way out. The only one I'm sure about 
> > >is Feb 21st 1974 when he played Phaedra and that he met up with 
> > >Monique and Edgar in London in april.
> > 
> > 
> > It was early
> > Peel was playing the albums before they were issued here
> > The interest created by that caused Richard Branson to
> > import them and that's what got the Virgin shop going
> > 
> > martinw
> >
>