[peel] 400 Box (another one from summer 79)

Martin Wheatley martinw@...
Sun Aug 28 13:13:37 CEST 2011


At 11:26 28/08/2011, you wrote:
>
>
>thanks for this steve,yes your right the crass label in general did 
>suffer from a lack of airplay, i wonder if walters had a bit of an 
>inflluence ''eh peely best not play too much of this anti thatcher 
>stuff on the show and upset the bbc hierarchy'' i wonder how much he 
>did say to peel behind the scenes as he did seem to know the correct 
>approach on keeping everyone happy.cheers mp. <saipanda@...>

Crass and their circle did not approve of Peel -  he was regarded as 
a representative
of the establishment.   This came to a head when Chumbawamba were 
finally booked for
a session and they did 4 MOR covers as a gesture of contempt

martinw 





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