[peel] The sort-of-pointless Marlon Brando search...

[Alan Ford]

I came to John very late, around '87 - by which time I was over 30 and had 3
kids - one of the first bands I discovered through John being The Colorblind
James Experience (have I mentioned them before?).

Alan




On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, mr_maudlin <markc63@...> wrote:

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> Since I discovered the Peel Wiki site last year I've been going through the
> available shows from 1979-80 hoping that I could pinpoint the time I first
> started listening to Peel. The compilation tapes I have start in August 1980
> but I know I was listening before then, albeit intermittently.
>
> My first recollection of Peel is tuning in as a 15 year old on the
> recommendation of a school friend and hearing him back announce a track with
> the words "well that one certainly mentions Marlon Brando..."
>
> I have to say I was a little confused (and intimidated) by what was going
> on. Here was this DJ who sounded like no other DJ I'd ever heard, playing an
> extremely strange selection of tracks, moving from the UK Subs to Prince Far
> I to Little Feat without any comment on the seeming (to me) incongruity of
> playing this stuff side by side.
>
> I have to admit that I don't think I tuned again for a good few months and
> have always been a bit embarrassed by the fact.
>
> Anyway, back to the sort-of-pointless search; by last night I had got to
> the track listing for 28 June 1979 and low and behold someone had taken the
> trouble to make a note that JP does an impression of Marlon Brando during
> the show. Sure enough, after playing Neil Young's Pocahontas , Peely states
> "surely the only mention in popular song of Marlon Brando...". I assume what
> then happened is that listeners wrote in with examples to prove him wrong
> and these were then played in subsequent programmes; when I first tuned in I
> must have caught the end of one of those tracks.
>
> Well, it was a eureka moment for me and I spent the rest of the evening in
> the warm glow of nostalgia.
>
> Many thanks to the original recorder, the ripper (that can't be right can
> it?) and the wiki editor.
> Cheers, Mark.
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