[peel] Re: sleevenotes, etc with sweary quote

[Alan Ford]

I've just added a new cover to
http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Peel_On_Record_Covers
a CD called John Peel's Festive 15.
I meant to add that it was free with the Jan 2006 issue of Uncut Magazine.
Now I can't figure out how to edit the text.

Alan


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM, steve <saipanda@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Cheers, Mark! Such an excellent story I had to try and track down the
> cover. Happily, a pic of the back sleeve was up at Discogs:
>
> http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2162186
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> After multiple zoomings in, the relevant bits of Cliff White's sleevenotes
> seem as follows (very much in line with Mark's quoted version from memory):
>
> You'll never know how close you came to being briefed about the late
> lamented Jimmy Reed by A Famous Person. Right here, on this very sleeve.
> TWICE.
>
> Alas, as is often the case with Famous People, both of them were
> unavoidably detained at the 11th hour. So you'll just have to make do with a
> few extracts from my 1964 diary....
>
> [cut diary extracts and several paragraphs]
>
> ... A last thought. I owe Jimmy, or you, or myself, at least a quote from
> one of those Famous People I mentioned at the beginning. This one's not as
> famous as the other one but who's counting. Come in, John Peel, a man who
> has always championed and played Jimmy Reed and therefore obviously a man of
> impeccable taste whose word should be hearkened unto. "The thing I've always
> liked about Jimmy's records, Cliff, is it's all such great music to fuck
> to."
>
> True, John, true. But will they stock it in WH Smith's?
>
> (end quote)
>
> Among other aspects, like the description of Peel as "a man of impeccable
> taste whose word should be hearkened unto."
>
> Think I need to sort out some kind of extra section on the wiki sleevenotes
> page to add this in (Sleevenotes Peel failed to deliver?).
>
> Cheers,
>
> SW
>
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <markonnewsgroups@...> wrote:
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> > I could have sworn I'd kept my old copy of Charly Records' Jimmy Reed
> compilation "Upside Your Head", but it's not with the others so I'll have to
> quote from memory.
> >
> > Anyway: not quite what you were looking for, but on the back of the
> sleeve Cliff White mentioned that he had failed to commission sleevenotes
> from a couple of Famous People, one of whom was revealed to be John Peel.
> John Peel's only surviving contribution is this quote: "The thing I've
> always liked about Jimmy Reed's music, Cliff, is that it's such great music
> to fuck to."
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