[peel] Looking for late August 1981 shows ("O Superman")

Stuart Brooks stuartb@...
Sat May 4 22:58:51 CEST 2019


Not so far, I expect you will have heard John say on the 1st September show that he and Richard Skinner had been going mad over the record "over the past week". 
Stuart

On 4 May 2019 19:30:44 BST, "'S. Alexander Reed' s.alexander.reed@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I figure that by now, Peel fans have found most of what we’re gonna
>find, but I wanted to ask just in case…
>
>I’m writing a book on Laurie Anderson’s Big Science, and I'm trying to
>locate the first broadcast of “O Superman" by Peel (or Dave Lee Travis
>or Richard Skinner).  On September 1, 1981, Peel plays the song and
>notes that people have been writing letters to him and Skinner about it
>for “the last week or so.”  But the Peel show archives (an astonishing
>resource) seem not to have any episodes from late August ’81.
>
>Anyhow, I figured I’d ask here, just in case there was water to be
>squeezed from the rock: does anyone happen to know about (or have a
>tape of) the BBC debut of “O Superman”?
>
>Cheers,
>Alex Reed, Ph.D.


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