[peel] Hippies waxing lyrical? John's in on it (2,6,4,4,3,3,3,2,5,4...3,3,4'2,7,2,4,5,2,5,5)

[Mike Parker]

I thought the main fallout was due to peel giving one of bolan's albums a bashing and refusing to play it or maybe that came after.


On Saturday, 1 November 2014, 14:56, "rockerq@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
One story I heardwas that Peelie only started to slag Marc off after he felt himself snubbed, when 'important' industry people were given guestlist places to T.Rex gigs and John was not.

But I guess we'll never know for sure now they are both gone...

Rocker
 



-----Original Message-----
From: MARK LUETCHFORD M.Luetchford@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com>
To: peel <peel@yahoogroups.com>; rockerq <rockerq@...>
Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 2:26 pm
Subject: Re: [peel] Hippies waxing lyrical? John's in on it (2,6,4,4,3,3,3,2,5,4...3,3,4'2,7,2,4,5,2,5,5)


  
However they later fell out - and John always professed to being puzzled by this but a couple of years ago on aone of teh programmes about music on BBC4 he was openly critical of Marc Bolan becoming a teen idol and driving around in rolls royces in his star phase. Tthat might explain it - I think he preferred the hippy phase and I can imagine him sitting cross legged in a haze of smokeables in his London flat. 

Although having said that he regularly played Jeepster and its cover by Aletered Images (and others) adn I can definitely remember him playing Telegram Sam in the 80s too. personally I think that stuff has lasted better than the songs about  elfs and wizards wandering around forests.

M


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 From: "rockerq@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com>
To: rockerq@...; peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, 31 October 2014, 23:51
Subject: Re: [peel] Hippies waxing lyrical? John's in on it (2,6,4,4,3,3,3,2,5,4...3,3,4'2,7,2,4,5,2,5,5)
 


  
Perhaps Ineed to explain for younger listeners "My people were fair...etc etc" was the 1968 debut album by Marc Bolan's hippy band Tyrannosaurus Rex - John Peel and Marc were great friends at this time, and Peelie reads a story in one track, and also contributed liner notes for the album.

Rocker
 



-----Original Message-----
From: rockerq <rockerq@...>
To: rockerq <rockerq@...>; peel <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 11:44 pm
Subject: Re: [peel] Hippies waxing lyrical? John's in on it (2,6,4,4,3,3,3,2,5,4...3,3,4'2,7,2,4,5,2,5,5)


GOT IT!

My people were fair and had sky in their hair...but now they're content to wear stars on their brows

Phew... had to dredge up some early 70s memories from when I slavishly bought the reissued Tyrannosaurus Rex albums after the success of T.Rex - Took me a while but I did get into them...

Rocker
 



-----Original Message-----
From: rockerq <rockerq@...>
To: peel <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 11:41 pm
Subject: Re: [peel] Hippies waxing lyrical? John's in on it (2,6,4,4,3,3,3,2,5,4...3,3,4'2,7,2,4,5,2,5,5)


I think the cluemust be in the apostrophe - a 'they're' or a 'they've' ?

Rocker
 



-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Brooks stuartb@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com>
To: peel <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 11:20 pm
Subject: Re: [peel] Hippies waxing lyrical? John's in on it (2,6,4,4,3,3,3,2,5,4...3,3,4'2,7,2,4,5,2,5,5)


  
Cheers Steve always good to unearth these early nuggets. PS was something crawling over the number pad of your keyboard when you were sending that....


On 31 October 2014 22:58:26 GMT+00:00, "so_it_goes_2512@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  
>Hi gang
>In the last week, I've been contacted by a kind gent who wishes to share a couple of early previously unavailable Peel files, and promises more, so many thanks to him.
>17 March 1972. From a Friday Night Is Boogie Night, Genesis' first session and some JP links.
>09 November 1972. Top Gear: a couple of Roxy Music session tracks and more of John.
>Best wishes
>Steve (TK)
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