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OK, can anyone name the two actresses and the show in the picture? Thought so! Doesn’t seem that long ago, does it?

This is the penultimate edition of Top Gear and a copy of this show has been kicking around in a much edited, poor (by which I mean excellently medium wave) quality, version for ages.

A big thank you to Humphrey for a longer, cleaner show, which for some reason doesn’t feature the delights of ABBA, despite the musical excellence they clearly display in their Waterloo Seaside special of the same month.

22nd September, 1975

Track list:

The Faces: ‘Stay With Me’ (Peel Session)

Steeleye Span: ‘Rave On’ (Peel Session)

Roxy Music: ‘If There Is Something’ (Peel Session)

Syd Barrett: ‘Gigolo Aunt’ (Peel Session)

Steeleye Span: ‘Lark In The Morning’ (Peel Session)

Steeleye Span – The Blacksmith

Lindisfarne – Road To Kingdom Come

Syd Barrett – Effervescing Elephant

The Faces – Maggie May

For those of you who weren’t there, this is what life was like in the 1970s…

Please help us at the JP wiki if you have any more info about this show.

Written by Adam

November 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Posted in 1975,david bowie,roxy music,The John Peel show

- Roxy Musicus Vol.1

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Don’t care what you say, this is cool

Cool. The absolute epitomy of cool. Hopefully there are those among you who already share my opinion, but equally I hope there are those who will be getting their first listen of Roxy Music. No particular reason for this post other than I dug out a few of the old albums today and needed to share a few tracks as they’re pretty close to perfection. Their early work from the early to mid 70s saw them instilled as Peel favourites; they did no less than four sessions in 1972. Today’s offering comes from the later era, which, if certain fools are to be believed, their work would be described by Rolling Stone as:

“Roxy Music has not gone disco. Roxy Music has not particularly gone anywhere else either… as well as Flesh + Blood (is) such a shockingly bad Roxy Music record that it provokes a certain fascination.”

Clearly wrong. If you don’t believe me, all you have to do is listen to this fifteen minutes of wonder.

Roxy Musicus Vol.1

- Same old scene
- More than this
- Dance away
- Angel eyes

Listen now…