sleevenotes, etc with sweary quote

steve saipanda@...
Wed Feb 23 19:55:14 CET 2011


Cheers, Alan! Have added the release details. 

Also switched the placing on the page as I think Steve TK was looking to have them in rough date order.

Hope it seems OK.

Cheers,

Steve W

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Alan Ford <ford.alan@...> wrote:
>
> 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@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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