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[So It Goes 2512]

Hi Alan

This has the smack of urban legend. If John had started to play anything that contained more than an occasional oath (and he even did this with Burning Love Jumpsuit in 2002, only ever playing half of the track), he would have taken it off immediately with a spluttered apology. 
Moreover, the move to 11 pm did not happen until the end of September 1990 and was not preceded by John being taken off the air. There are other DJs who could be candidates as subjects for this story, e.g. Alan Freeman, who mysteriously ended his Saturday Rock Show very shortly after giving the full title of a certain Sex Pistols LP) and Johnnie Walker, who never hesitated to speak his mind about the Bay City Rollers and M******t T******r.

Best wishes
Steve (TK)

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, cannon alan <ajcauk@...> wrote:
>
> Hi group
> 
>  In conversation the other day someone said that John Peel had been taken off 
> air for a few weeks because
> he played a B-side by  mistake that was expletive ridden back in the 80's when 
> he was on at 10 at night and then moved to
> 11. Is this an exaggeration or an embellishment? I remember the change of hours 
> that's all.
> 
> alanjc
>