[peel] Most surprising records played

John Bravin john.bravin@...
Mon Sep 6 17:13:48 CEST 2010


  He played Sheena Easton's 9 TO 5 many times, and once declared 
"...when I should be singing something by Joy Division, I find myself 
humming this by Sheena Easton..".  No shame in that, as Johnny Walker 
once said of Candy Staton's Young Hearts, "It's just a pop record, but 
actually it's so much more".  Nowadays it would have labelled 
post-ironic but that wasn't invented in 1981.

For me the more interesting question is would Peel have played Arcade 
Fire or The XX?

John




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