[peel] Re: Friday Rock Show with Tommy Vance

[Michael Capewell]

A bit of googling reveals that the first top 10 included Shine on you crazy diamond, Starship Trooper, Suppers Ready, Stargazer, Smoke on the Water, Xanadu, Layla, Freebird, Child in Time and Stairway to Heaven. Of course, several of these tracks featured in the Festive Fifty in its various guises.

****Well, they were in the first FF in '76. Looks like disgruntled Peel listeners, post Punk revolution, transferred to TV :-)
Actually, listening to Haze's uploads, one gets the impression that Mr Vance didn't really have a great in-depth knowledge at the time of the type of Rock music that he was playing. He's certainly dodgy on names. The co-writer of Whiter Shade Of Pale...Keith Richards ??? ;-)