[peel] Re: sleevenotes, etc with sweary quote

[Alan Ford]

Looks good to me. Ta

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM, steve <saipanda@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>
> 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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