[peel] Re: expletive

[john guthrie]

he did, at some point, start making those announcements early in the show to
the effect that someone with delicate ears may hear something they wouldn't
want to hear, and should turn off their radio if they were concerned about
this. yes? if i weren't a bit drunk right now i could pin this down
better....

john

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:40 PM, So It Goes 2512 <
so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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
> >
>
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